New TV On The Radio - Wolf Like Me

And now we break from our coverage of Lollapalooza to bring you the new video and song from the forthcoming album Return to Cookie Mountain from Tv On The Radio...

I expect a HUGE push for this record as it is their first on new label Interscope (it's their second official release and their fourth record overall if you count OK Calculator and the famed Young Liar EP.) I don't know much about these cats, but after reading their blog, I have a feeling they are on drugs...

I hate writing record reviews - here's one I swiped...

Their second album and first for Interscope is almost wholly brilliant. Like Mogwai, Sigur Ros and a dozen others, TVOTR excels at making slowly-evolving tunes with vaguely anthemic choruses and lots of loud-soft dynamics. Unlike virtually any of those other bands, TV on the Radio mix a genuine and actual songwriting ability with their knack for finding sounds that appear to be "new." This record is crisper-sounding and incorporates more dance-based elements, but it's essentially a pop album. While the lack of the free web-released "Dry Drunk Emperor, a tribute to President Bush, is initially a bummer, the album percolates with enough pre-apocalyptic tension to satisfy anyone. In a Prince-pitched falsetto, the group sings "I was a lover/ Before this war," While throughout, the combination of melody and invention is always pitch-perfect (well, except on "Province" and "Let the Devil In," those songs sort of suck.) People of Earth: please make this band into total superstars and buy several copies of their album: one for the car, another for the office, etc. What we really need in our popular music is more weirdness, and more truth. --Mike McGonigal







TV on the Radio - Wolf Like Me - MP3

TV on the Radio - Playhouses - MP3