Yeah Yeah Yeahs have announced a live album called Hidden In Pieces, recorded at the Royal Albert Hall. It is streaming now, with an expanded digital edition and vinyl and CD versions to follow on October 23. The first 250 vinyl orders come with a photograph signed by all three members.
The record draws primarily from two nights at the London venue in June last year, alongside recordings captured in San Diego, Chicago and New York during the band's intimate 25th-anniversary theatre tour.
Karen O framed the tour as a response to a moment rather than a routine victory lap, saying it "was born out of a need to commune with our band and fan family in 2025, after the election." She added that the band do not usually choose when to go back out, and that the times tend to choose for them.
The London nights were the third stop on the run, and she described the pressure around them plainly before landing on the line the announcement leads with: "All the shows we performed on this small tour were extraordinarily vulnerable." She singled out the pipe organ passage in "Skeletons" and said Nick Zinner felt his fingers were being guided on the neck.
The arrangements are the point. Strings, piano and double bass reshape songs from across the catalogue, including "Maps," "Gold Lion," "Zero," "Cheated Hearts" and "Spitting Off The Edge Of The World." The set also carries their cover of Bjork's "Hyperballad" and opens with "In Heaven," the Eraserhead song written by Peter Ivers and David Lynch. Lynch died a month before the tour began, and O said the opening is an ode to his legacy.
There is a film alongside it. Hidden In Pieces is a 22-minute black-and-white visual companion directed by Barnaby Clay, recorded at the Orpheum Theatre in Los Angeles during the tour, and it is out on the Criterion Channel.
The tour itself was first announced in March 2025, promising rarely played songs in new arrangements; the band's most recent studio album remains 2022's Cool It Down. Pairing a live record with a film is becoming a common move, as it was when Ghost tied a live album to an IMAX release. Other rock release dates sit on the release calendar.
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- The live album is streaming now, with vinyl and CD on October 23, 2026.
- It draws mainly from two Royal Albert Hall nights in June 2025.
- Recordings from San Diego, Chicago and New York are also included.
- The first 250 vinyl orders include a photograph signed by the band.
- The set opens with the Eraserhead song In Heaven and covers Bjork's Hyperballad.
- A 22-minute film by Barnaby Clay is out on the Criterion Channel.
- The band's last studio album was 2022's Cool It Down.
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