Dancing Choose by TV On The Radio
1 year agoTV on the Radio’s music is a new kind of rock ‘n’ roll, one that collects all of this itinerant noise and recycles it, spits it back out as a pulsing, sandblasted reckoning. Fuzz and buzz, tumble-dry spin cycle patterns—are we listening to synthesizers or guitars, live drums or a programmed approximation? The dense mix of the New York City band’s sound—redundant, perhaps, on its surface, yet a swamp of complication beneath that serves as an artist’s rendering of the very city it comes from—makes piecemeal analysis irrelevant. It’s all one, a sonic totality of post-industrial digi-funk and the paranoid, lovesick blues of the Information Age—or, as Tunde Adebimpe sings in “DLZ”, the penultimate track on the band’s new Dear Science, “the long-winded blues of the never”. […] - Zeth Lundy, PopMatters
