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TV on the Radio Dear Science DGC/Interscope |
No longer howling at the moon, TV on the Radio comes charging down from the summit following the late-night lycanthropy of their last album, 2006’s sophomore smash Return To Cookie Mountain. Right from the start on “Halfway Home,” frontman Tunde Adebimpe and guitarist/vocalist Kyp Malone lead a charge of driving rock riffs and vocal harmonies. The latter spill over into subsequent stand-out tracks “Crying,” a number with an older, funkier, yet still spaced-out soul than anything the band has done before and “Family Tree,” a pristine piano ballad. Predictably unpredictable, TVOTR twists at every turn, with each song sounding completely different from the last – or anything else out there – as strings join the saxophones, synths and signature loops of producer/multi-instrumentalist David Sitek in accompanying Adebimpe’s always amazing voice.
–Eric Mitts
