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TV ON THE RADIO - Return To Cookie Mountain
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| After a flawless EP and an adventurous full length that received split opinions—some adored it, some were disappointed—TV On The Radio’s sophomore LP comes out of the gate strong with what is an amazing effort. The strength of this album is that while many of the tracks are genuinely amazing and keep the listener on the edge of their seat for what is next, no other band sounds anything like this, nor could they if they tried....full text |
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| Drowned in sound |
| Picture the scene; a low rider pulls up outside a coastal strip-club in Santa Monica, the sun hanging between 6&8 above. One of the riders are drinking from a bottle of champagne, and the rest are grinning Cheshire-cat grins. But look a little closer; everything is not as it seems. Their grins are pockmarked with missing teeth and almost certainly chemically induced, the bottle of champagne is being clutched a little too tightly and the sun is about to become obscured by dark clouds....full text |
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The Brooklyn-based and polymorphically perverse quintet’s debut was their ‘Young Liars’ EP (which featured Nick Zinner and Brian Chase of Yeah Yeah Yeahs), but it was their LP of 2004, ‘Desperate Youth, Blood Thirsty Babes’ which saw them bust out of the underground, despite compromising none of their interest in mardy atmospherics, dense electronic texturing and description-averse tuneage....full text |
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