Sacrilege (song)

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"Sacrilege"
YeahYeahYeahsSacrilege.jpg
Single by Yeah Yeah Yeahs
from the album Mosquito
ReleasedFebruary 25, 2013 (Digital download)
RecordedSonic Ranch in Tornillo, Texas
Genre
Length3:50
Label Interscope
Songwriter(s)
Producer(s)
Yeah Yeah Yeahs singles chronology
"Skeletons"
(2010)
"Sacrilege"
(2013)
"Despair"
(2013)
Music video
"Sacrilege" on YouTube

"Sacrilege" is the first single from the Yeah Yeah Yeahs' fourth album Mosquito released on February 25, 2013 as a digital download. [1] It was recorded at Sonic Ranch Studios in Tornillo, Texas and produced by TV on the Radio's Dave Sitek and English record producer Nick Launay. [2] [3]

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Performances

The band appeared on Late Show with David Letterman on April 5, 2013 to perform "Sacrilege", accompanied by the gospel choir Broadway Inspirational Voices. [4]

Reception

"Sacrilege" was named "Best New Track" by Pitchfork Media February 26, 2013. Dan Martinson stated in his positive review, "Karen O falls for an angel who falls from the sky, the constant clank of Brian Chase's cymbals and Nick Zinner's guitar curlicues evoke "Gimme Shelter" with an exaggerated gospel swing." [5]

Music video

The music video was directed by French collective Megaforce and premiered on March 26, 2013. [6] The video stars English model and actress Lily Cole. [7] The video consists of a chronologically reversed sequence of events outlining the rationale and events leading to a group of people in a small town shooting a man and burning a promiscuous woman (Cole) alive. The band does not appear in the video.

In July 2013, "Sacrilege" was featured in the season three premiere episode of Suits .

In October 2013, "Sacrilege" was featured across the closing scenes of the second episode of The Originals . [8]

The song was used in the September 2023 premiere episode of Wilderness , played while Jenna Coleman's character lashes out and burns her cheating husband's (Oliver Jackson-Cohen, not present in scene) clothes.

In Season 1, Episode 8 of Kaos (TV series), released August 2024, Sacrilege plays over the closing climactic scenes as Zeus (Jeff Goldblum) discovers he is bleeding, Hera (Janet McTeer) abandons Olympus, Hades (David Thewlis) encounters Canaeus (Misia Butler) renewing his mother's soul, and Ariadne (Leila Farzad) plans with Andromache (Amanda Douge) to rebuild Troy and destroy Olympus.

Track listing

Digital download [1]
No.TitleLength
1."Sacrilege"3:50
7" red vinyl [2]
No.TitleLength
1."Sacrilege"3:50
2."Mosquito" (Live from Area 52)3:24

Charts

Chart (2013)Peak
position
Belgium (Ultratop 50 Flanders) [9] 74
UK Singles (Official Charts Company) [10] 137
US Hot Rock Songs ( Billboard ) [11] 49
US Alternative Airplay ( Billboard ) [12] 33

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