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Desperate Youth, Blood Thirsty Babes (Vinyl)

By: TV On The Radio (Artist)

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TV On The Radio Artist Snapshot:

Formed in 2003, TV On The Radio is one of the more exciting and unusual acts to emerge from the mid-decade Brooklyn underground boom. Playing intelligent, well-crafted rock that nods to everything from prog to electronica to doo-wop, TV On The Radio created a sound that was both experimental and accessible, and in doing so pushed the sonic boundaries of not only the underground, but of pop music in general. By the release of their third full-length, 2008's DEAR SCIENCE, the band had left the undergound behind almost completely, hob-nobing with the likes of David Bowie and Trent Reznor and offering an American answer to the intelligent, forwarding-thinking rock of Radiohead.

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Review

Rolling Stone (3/18/04, p.73) - 3.5 stars out of 5 - "[The Brooklyn band is] indebted to everything from late-Eighties indie rock to classic soul music....DESPERATE YOUTH is a rebuke to their retro peers: Not all the good ideas have been taken already."
Rolling Stone (p.152) - Included in Rolling Stone's Top 50 Records Of 2004 - "DESPERATE YOUTH is more proof that sometimes the best records are the most challenging."
Spin (p.66) - Ranked #12 in Spin's "40 Best Albums of the Year" - "Easily the year's dizziest album, their debut sounds like Kanye West producing a punkabilly space-rock troupe."
Q (p.124) - 3 stars out of 5 - "[U]niquely intriguing, weaving in influences that have no right to mesh as coherently as they do....Singer Tunde Adebimpe has fashioned a genuinely novel sound."
Uncut (p.100) - 4 stars out of 5 - "A far more effective transcription of frantic, funky Manhattan than the CBGBs set ever dreamt of..."
Uncut (p.76) - Ranked #36 in Uncut's "Best New Albums of 2004" - "This smart and soulful transcription of Manhattan's frantic energy is one of the year's better discoveries."
Magnet (p.67) - Ranked #15 in Magnet's "The 20 Best Albums Of 2004" - "[A] subway rumble through 60 years' worth of the five boroughs' golden greats."
Mojo (Publisher) (p.116) - 4 stars out of 5 - "[A] debut album that elegantly pursues their quest to sound like nothing they recognise....TVOTR are coming over loud and beautifully weird."

Title Note

This is an Enhanced CD, which contains both regular audio tracks and multimedia computer files.

TV On The Radio: Kyp Malone (vocals, guitar, loops); Tunde Adebimpe (vocals, loops); David Andrew Sitek.

Additional personnel: Katrina Ford (vocals); Nick Zinner (guitar); Martin Perna (flute); Jaleel Bunton (drums).

Brooklyn trio TV ON THE RADIO first started creating a stir in 2003 with their Liars/Yeah Yeah Yeahs connections and striking debut EP, which made many year-end best-of lists despite its short length. The band's much-anticipated debut full-length is essentially a stylistic continuation of the sound forged on the EP. There's a strong influence of what could only be called art-rock; singer Tunde Adebimpe's voice strongly resembles that of Peter Gabriel, and the band conjures thick, atmospheric clouds of multi-layered keyboards. However, there's also a distinctively punk side to DESPERATE YOUTH, BLOOD THIRSTY BABES that's a reflection not only of the band's peers, but of homage subtly paid to the post-punk likes of PiL or Pere Ubu. Tension, emotion, and friction reign throughout, as a current of unease drifts through the album, making the listening experience simultaneously rich and slightly unsettling.

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