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Desperate Youth, Blood Thirsty Babes

TV on the Radio Audio CD
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EIGHT THINGS YOU SHOULD KNOW ABOUT THE TEN SONGS ON THE NEW TV ON THE RADIO ALBUM, NINE TYPES OF LIGHT (THIRTEEN SONGS IF YOU BUY THE DELUXE EDITION)

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This TV On The Radio album, Nine Types of Light (Interscope), is a lush and beautiful album that stands apart from the group's previous work. If their other albums had shades of dystopia and distress, this album, sung by Tunde ... Read more in Amazon's TV on the Radio Store

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  • Audio CD (7 Jun 2004)
  • Number of Discs: 1
  • Label: 4AD
  • ASIN: B00022LTLA
  • Other Editions: Audio CD  |  Vinyl  |  MP3 Download
  • Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (8 customer reviews)
  • Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 66,597 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

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The debut album from TV on the Radio, Desperate Youth, Blood Thirsty Babes singles this multi-racial Brooklyn trio out as a markedly different band from many of their new-wave New York peers. Where Yeah Yeah Yeahs are earthy and sexy, TV are synthetic, hypnotic and aloof; where The Rapture are passionate and almost aggressively funky, vocalist Tunde Adebimpe, guitarist Kyp Malone and all-rounder David Andrew Sitek present their music with a kind of cold removal that, for all its stuttering beatbox rhythms and saxophone bursts, is never exactly danceable. Indeed, the primary hook here is Adebimpe's remarkable voice: a sweet soul falsetto that recalls no-one else more than Peter Gabriel. Accordingly, the album's best track, "Staring at the Sun", is little more than a kaleidoscope of voices drifting in and out of focus--although rock trivia fans will doubtless be interested to know that distant psychedelic squall comes courtesy of Yeah Yeah Yeahs guitarist Nick Zinner. It's a formula that can't quite hold firm for the whole 47 minutes, but at its best, Desperate Youth, Blood Thirsty Babes moulds indie-rock into something fresh, clever and innovative. –-Louis Pattison

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4.0 out of 5 stars Sons of Sun Ra 7 July 2004
Format:Audio CD
This is the debut album by this New York trio. It features superbly realised apocalyptic punk funk and jazz with a psychedelic blues twist.

If you like this New York new wave thing (whatever it's called this time round) then TV on the Radio are a great band as they push the sound forward. For me, it sags slightly in the middle at first, although rewarded repeated listens.

Perhaps not an absolute classic, but a superb debut from a very promising band.

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5.0 out of 5 stars Spooked voodoo thrills 17 Jun 2004
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Parping sax, dense, bludgeoning industrial bass throbs, and a cracked sleazy nursery gospel are just the first noises that hit your ears on the opening seconds of TV On The Radio's shimmering debut. Featuring opening lyrical of intent (of opener 'Wrong Way') "Woke up in a magic movie/ With the bright light pointed at me as a metaphor" This is clearly not coldplay.

Emerging out of the steamy sewers of Brooklyn, these four black guys and a token honky nerd, has had critics creaming their collective jeans since the release of debut Young Liars EP (worthy of purchase if only for their barbershop version of The Pixies' 'Mr Grieves') could for once justify the hype swooping around them. Produced by, and featuring Yeah Yeah Yeahs producer David Andrew Sitek, this is sonic alchemy of the highest order. Expect the unexpected and then expect some more.

They have been dubbed 'the black Cocteau Twins' (they're not) but come across at times like a drunk angry Prince fronting My Bloody Valentine, playing art-house tribal or the 'afrofuturists' they dub themselves. Vocalists Tunde Adebimpe and Kyp Malone swoop soulfully over and around lyric lines, one providing falsetto counterpoint to the other, melding abstract lyrics over the looping frenetic guitar, fuzzed bass and glitch drum tracks. Calling to mind the spectral early white-boy funk-punk-dub of P.I.L., the perverse genius of Brian Eno, avante-garde pop dreamers AR Kane, Talking Heads, The Wolfgang Press and a host of other early nineties 4AD record label musical refugees.

With their uncertain edgy viewpoints as outsiders observing and the frisson of technicolour genre clashes they concoct a tense, dramatic, soulful post-rocking that hovers on the edge of pop sensibilities with an eye on the murky underground before things get too comfortable. Dramatics are presented in the rubbing of frail voices against electro feedback, solitary instruments bursting free to give life to the humanity against the machines. This is truly music for metaphors.

Recent single 'Staring At The Sun' is more approachable and manages to taint the bland chorus of 'staring at the sun, standing in the sea, your mouth is open wide' with a sense of foreboding and menace as vocals joust and slide and slip off each other in, as the hypnotic groove revolves underneath like a undertow threatening to pull you under, or containing something unspeakable.Barbershop meets pseudo doo-wop harmonies on the spiralling spooky-accapella of 'Ambulance', 'Poppy' sounds, as it breaks down thrillingly from strident stomp of tribal march to spiritual vocal and back up again stronger, stranger and more soulful than either of the reference points.

Knowledge that true drama comes in creating tension in these stalking tunes that circle on the edge of the cliff without charging into the obvious sonic bombast is one of the compelling strengths of TV On The Radio. that would be disappointing if they followed them through. Conflict and no resolutions mark their work out as standing up to repeated listening to reveal more depths.

Like Shrek, TV On The Radio have layers, and while the casual listeners seeking immediate pop thrills may be disappointed, those digging in for the haul will be delighted for delving into the psychedelic fog for these strange and rewarding musical pearls.

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4.0 out of 5 stars Hard to get into but worth the effort 1 May 2004
By Sarah
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Staring At The Sun was the first track I listened to from this album and I was immediately grabbed by the Postal Service-esque indie/electronic beats. However, it took a little longer to get into the rest of the album. Despite this, it was worth the effort and after a few listens, this CD is in my top list of CDs released this year so far. It's a little different but that is by no means detrimental; give it a try and you might be surprised. TV On The Radio are very much an 'underground' phenomenon at the moment (speaking in terms of the UK) but are coming over for a few dates later this month and will perhaps get the recognition they rightly deserve.

If you like The Postal Service, Dntel and/or Death Cab For Cutie, you'll probably enjoy Desperate Youth Blood Thirsty Babes.

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