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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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