TVOTR get their stop motion on with their latest video from Dear Science. “Stork & Owl” is one of the softer songs on the album that plays out like an aesop fable. I couldn’t find an embeddable vid of this on youtube, so you’ll have to follow this link to see it, and its in a pretty small quicktime format.. but we will update once it gets youtubed.
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I’m really enjoying the new TVOTR just like almost the entire rest of the music media. I’m seeing these perfect scores everywhere, but every time I listen to the album I am thrown off by the jarring difference between some songs that come right after one another. There seems to be no flow and the song order is keeping me from praising this album on the same level. And maybe this was their intent, but I think it makes it a worse album to listen to all the way through. A lot of comments have been made about this album being more cohesive than Return to Cookie Mtn, which has completely baffled me.
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I am only half way through my first spin of TVOTR’s Dear Science, and so far i am not sure about the first half, i probably have to listen to it more, but one thing i am sure about: this song “Family Tree” is stunning…immediatly. Quite possibly the best song i have heard all year. Reminds me of a less dramatic and more jarring Stars song.
That is all.
UPDATE: Aquarium Drunkard has a great review of the album.
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In a Rolling Stone Interview yesterday TVOTR revealed some more details and the thinking behind their upcoming album Dear Science. The main gist of the interview is that TVOTR purposefully dropped the moody industrial sound to make a dance record. Here are a few snippets
Dave Sitek: These songs are just cleaner and punchier. With this record, we faded out the question mark and faded in the exclamation point.
Did your decision to move away from the gloomy atmospheric jams on Return To Cookie Mountain towards more dancier, upbeat tracks have anything to do with the impending end of the Bush regime?
TA: I personally think it’s a cause for celebration. If anyone would like to use the soundtrack for that, please blast it on 11.
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Thanks for GvB for the heads up on the stream of TV on the Radio’s new song “Dancing Choose”. When i first heard it i thought “haha…nice joke….no way this is TVOTR”, then i guickly realized it actually was the band. I am not sure what i think of it. First impression: don’t like this direction at all, but i will wait till i hear the whole album. I first thought it sounded like a more indie version of “We didn’t start the fire”, but then after re-reading GvB’s post on Rollingstone calling it their answer to REM’s “It’s the end of the world as we know it”, i can totally hear that.
Stream it here, and be prepared for something different than you expect. Gotta give TVOTR credit for always achieving that.
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We posted the cover art for Dear Science a few weeks ago, now there is a song and website available. Head over to tvontheradio.com to listen to the new song. It’s pretty funky, the bass sounds like something from Michael Jackson’s thriller album and there is a much cleaner sound. I don’t hear much guitar on the track and it sounds pretty electronic. It’s definitely catchy, but if I were to give my first impression it would be a negative one, this sounds like a normal song… and I’m used to TV on the Radio showing something different.Will have to listen a few more times and hear the rest of the album before I make any more judgement.
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TV On The Radio are set to release their much anticipated 3rd album Dear Science on September 26th and Drowned in Sound has a good rundown of each song on the album. According to those who got a first listen, the album has some funky bass lines on it, but still filtered through the usual TVOTR dark soundscapes and fuzz. It kind of sucks to have to read what an album sounds like, but don;t worry I’m sure if someone was able to listen to it then it will be leaking online shortly.
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