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Product detail
TV On The Radio:
Dear Science
CAD2821CD
Release Date : Sep 22 2008
Genre:indie
Label:4AD
despatched in 5 to 7 days
The album's opener, 'Halfway Home', is vintage TVOTR - a rich, speaker-swallowing canvas of careening beats, buzzing riffs and bloodletting vocals. Things get strange from that point on, however, as mirror balls spin (a dare-we-say-danceable 'Crying', the helicopter hook of 'Golden Age') and Adebimpe attacks 'Dancing Choose' like a mic-wielding battle rapper.
And then there are the glimmers of drum & bass ('Shout Me Out'), drunken horn sections ('Red Dress', one of several songs to feature members of Antibalas), and carefully-plucked film score strings ('Stork & Owl') that spice up what's clearly TVOTR's most challenging effort yet. Not challenging in the sense of being a rough listen—challenging in terms of rewriting the group's supposed gloomy, stormy aesthetics.
If you still toss on such beautifully-damaged tracks as 'Dreams' and 'Ambulance' when times get tough, don't worry—TV On The Radio still go for the jugular in the melancholic and moody department. In fact, some of ‘Dear Science’ sounds downright menacing. Take 'DLZ': a fang-baring "fuck you" to the idea of death being "your last chance to do anything" according to Adebimpe, it's some of most frightening, and affecting, music in the TVOTR canon. 'Stork & Owl' is much more muted in its mix of skittering beats, wilting strings and gorgeous, multi-tracked harmonies but good luck putting on a happy face after succumbing to its postmodern soul soundtrack.
"stunning" - NME 8/10
Tracklisting
1. Halfway Home
2. Crying
3. Dancing Choose
4. Stork & Owl
5. Golden Age
6. Family Tree
7. Red Dress
8. Love Dog
9. Shout Me Out
10. DLZ
11. Lover's Day
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