The album is available to stream now, with an expanded digital edition, as well as vinyl and CD versions, set to follow on October 23. Fans can pre-order those here.
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The first 250 vinyl orders will also receive a photograph signed by all three band members.
Announcing the release, Karen O has said the tour “was born out of a need to commune with our band and fan family in 2025, after the election”.
The record features strings, piano and double bass across reimagined versions of songs spanning the band’s catalogue, including ‘Maps’, ‘Gold Lion’, ‘Zero’, ‘Cheated Hearts’ and ‘Spitting Off The Edge Of The World’.
It also includes their cover of Björk’s ‘Hyperballad’ and opens with ‘In Heaven’, the song from Eraserhead written by Peter Ivers and David Lynch.
?Hidden In Pieces Live At The Royal Albert Hall’ tracklist.
A 22-minute black-and-white visual companion titled Hidden In Pieces has also been released on the Criterion Channel. Directed by Barnaby Clay, the film was recorded at the Orpheum Theatre in Los Angeles during the tour and captures the reworked material in an intimate live setting.
The ‘Hidden In Pieces’ tour was first announced in March 2025, with the band promising rarely performed songs and established favourites presented with new arrangements.
When the run opened in Riverside, California, Yeah Yeah Yeahs gave ‘Little Shadow’ its live debut and performed ‘Mars’ and ‘Let Me Know’ alongside their cover of ‘Hyperballad’.
Their most recent studio album remains 2022’s ‘Cool It Down’, which marked their first full-length release in nine years. In a four-star review, NME described it as “a creative testament to how refreshing it can be for bands to look forward instead of backwards”.
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