The Yeah Yeah Yeahs can do no wrong at the moment. Their latest album “It’s Blitz” has been widely acclaimed with addictive anthems like Zero and Heads Will Roll. NME, for example, heralded the the album as being an “emphatic reassertion of why Yeah Yeah Yeahs are one of the most exciting bands of this decade”.

So when you’re the hottest thing since toast what do you do with your time? You play the festivals pimping your wares and then…you release a short film?

Yep, the Indie threesome star in the bizarre 7 minute black and white film “Snakesweat”, directed by Barney Clay – the man behind some of the bands music videos (most recently that for Zero). It’s dark, it’s arty and I couldn’t turn it off. The band describe it as:

“A mescaline-infused short featuring the YYYs playing severely warped versions of themselves.”

These ‘warped versions’ see crazy Karen O playing the role of the ‘Black Widow’, puffing on cigars, shooting a semi-auto and flashing thigh in El Paso, Texas. Drummer Brian Chase and guitarist Nick Zinner portraying the Philosopher and the Scientist. Weirdly intrigued??

httpvh://www.youtube.com/watch?v=71-ngdtT9LY