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Binding: Audio CD EAN: 0602517056176 Label: Interscope Records Manufacturer: Interscope Records Number Of Discs: 1 Publisher: Interscope Records Release Date: September 12, 2006 Sales Rank: 1379 Studio: Interscope Records
Amazon.com: 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
Customer Reviews
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Rating: - A new breed of rock is perfected
Of all the albums that topped the best of 2006 lists, TV on the Radio's Return to Cookie Mountain was perhaps the most challenging and simultaneously rewarding. I was recommended the album simply on a "you would like this" basis, and alternatively the persons brother told me I would hate it. Thus, I decided it was something I needed to hear, but I put it off. I regained interest by the end of the year when I started seeing the album all over the place, in places as innocuous and simple as Rolling Stone, The Onion, and Pitchfork Media (god forgive me). Although I hate giving any more bearing to ... Read More
Rating: - I see mucho potential
I actually bought "Return From Cookie Mountain" about a year ago, and at the time I was not sure what to make of it.. I enjoyed the material, but I found the album to be generally lacking in emotional content. I sung along, but was also confounded by its mezzo-forte studio-phonic aesthetic. At the time, I intended to write a perfectly apathetic review, expressing my confusion about the fact that I did not like it that much, but I did not hate it either.
BUT ...usually.... this kind of internal dialogue indicates I have a great album that I just don't "get" yet. Why are many of ... Read More
Rating: - Have a Review, Won't You?
Stop basing your purchases on written reviews or singles. Reviews are opinions of people different from you with biases different from your own. Singles are used to get close-minded peeps to buy the full album. Those close-minded peeps are often disappointed. Being open to cutting edge music doesn't mean you listen to "Return to Cookie Mountain" 12 times, say you "tried too like it" and sell it on CraigsList. It means you actually like it. Because independent of any review (I never heard any review, other that a local DJ telling an upset listener--who only liked "Wolf Like Me"-- to listen to the ... Read More
Rating: - Eh....
I bought this CD, as I sometimes do, because of one song I heard. In this case, Wolf Like Me. That song is a fine, fine tune with good synth sound and a nice peppy melody. The rest of the disc, as so often happens, was a bit of a let down. If you really, really liked Wolf Like Me and were hoping for more of the same, my suggestion is to just get the single.
Rating: - Sophomore masterpiece with recording loops and guitar waves
TV on the Radio's sophomore album is a brilliant mix of broken record loops, scatologic drums and waves of guitar noise.
Everything in the album recording is incredible. This album uniquely brings plenty of unconventional sounds, such as a broken horn loop followed by repetitive looping keyboard chords in the war song "I Was a Lover." Jaleel Bunton pounds a fast jungle-style drum beat in "Playhouses." So many songs sound like electronica jams, but they are filled with plenty of elaborate wall-of-sound guitar waves and choral "oohs."
TV on the Radio has become infamous with ... Read More
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