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TV On The Radio - Dear Science
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| Guardian |
| New York's TV On the Radio used to make difficult music that was easier to admire than to like. However, their fourth album seems to answer the conundrum of how to make experimental music popular. Led by guitarist/production wizkid David Sitek, Dear Science comes laden with awkward drums, avant jazz squawks, the hum of electric pylons and what at one point sounds like the whirr of a recorded hedge trimmer. However, the noises inhabit tunes that are never less than singable. With influences as diverse as The The, afrobeat and the funky guitar sound favoured by Chic and Haircut 100, Dear Science is both visceral and cerebral. Tunde Adebimpe sings everything from pop critique ("Angry young mannequin, American apparently") to old-fashioned sauce ("I'm gonna shake you, I'm gonna make you come"). The driving Spector-Numanesque Halfway Home may be album opener of the year, while the spectacularly lovely Family Tree is, implausibly, an art rock ballad. Career-defining stuff....full text |
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| Latimes |
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ortunately, not all jazz masters share his view. Wynton Marsalis teamed up with Willie Nelson last year at Lincoln Center for an illuminating demonstration of how naturally those two worlds can intersect, echoing the historical precedent country music founding father Jimmie Rodgers set nearly 80 years earlier when he invited Louis Armstrong in for one of his recordings sessions. Renowned jazz bassist Charlie Haden comes by his affinity for country honestly. Before he moved to L.A. and joined saxophonist Ornette Coleman's border-smashing quartet in the 1950s, before he'd made up his mind as a teenager to devote his career to jazz after hearing Charlie Parker play, Haden was the youngest member of the traveling Haden Family, which toured the Midwest and South, playing traditional country and bluegrass....full text |
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| Slantmagazine |
| Staying true to the deeply disturbing calculus that plots an inverse relationship between the quality of the geopolitical climate and the quality of the music, TV on the Radio's Dear Science, a marked improvement on 2006's plenty extraordinary Return to Cookie Mountain, is heralded by a potentially catastrophic economic crisis that has overshadowed countless troubling developments abroad and a high-stakes election increasingly characterized by brazen stunt performances that even David Blaine would deem excessive and tacky. In other words Shit's gotten real, real stupid, so along comes TV on the Radio, writing an open letter to science and reason, asking if they'll ever be able to pull their act together long enough to make an impact on a batshit-insane culture that's currently smitten by a Young Earth Creationist and her Tina Fey glasses....full text |
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