TV on the Radio - Return to Cookie Mountain
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Artist: TV on the RadioEdition: Music CD
Audio: English (Original Language)
Format: Import
CD Release Date: 2006-08-08
Music Label: 4ad Records UK
Soundtracks:
- I Was A Lover
- Hours
- Province
- Playhouses
- Wolf Like Me
- A Method
- Let The Devil In
- Dirtywhirl
- Blues From Down Here
- Tonight
- Wash The Day
Free Music Notes for Return to Cookie Mountain
Free Music Review: One of the most brilliant albums of 2006
Hit: 5 Stars
I was not a huge fan of TV on the Radio's previous album, DESPERATE YOUTH, BLOOD THIRSTY BABES. It was filled with interesting sounds and ideas, but they simply didn't coalesce for me into anything especially compelling or exciting. I'm not sure what happened between that album and RETURN TO COOKIE ALBUM, but whatever it was this is easily one of the most stunning albums I have listened to in a long time.
Not everything on this CD is gold, but all of it is at least very interesting, and at least two cuts stand out as among the best cuts of 2006, and "Playhouses" just might be my favorite song of the year so far. The individual moments are just as interesting and fascinating as on the earlier album, but this time the songs are definitely both exciting and compelling. The other album in the end failed to be truly musical, but this one is exhilaratingly so.
I'm not quite sure who to compare this album to. At times they definitely remind me of Pere Ubu, but not consistently so. Tunde Adepimbe's vocals are truly unique and really don't call to mind any other singer. The band also stands out as arguably the best mainly black rock band since Bad Brains.
I have only three complaints with the disc, complaints that do not outweigh the tremendous delight that I experience listening to the album. First, there are times when I respect it more than like it. Although "Playhouses" and "Dirtywhirl" are sounds that thrill and delight on nearly every level, there are other songs that are interesting only insofar as they are complex and challenging. Second, not all the material is up to the level of the very best songs; this is mitigated by the fact that there are a bevy of really fine songs. Finally, while I love the timbre of Tunde Adepimbe's voice, the band's technique of multi-layering his vocals sometimes obscures the lyrics. Although I have perfect pitch and have always been musical, I also have a sharp high-range hearing loss (the result of a jerk throwing a fire cracker at my head when I was twelve--instant traumatic hearing loss). The main way this effects my enjoyment of music is that I sometimes struggle to make out lyrics (I can easily hear vowels, but consonants on CD sometimes fall into the range of my hearing loss). There are entire songs on this album where I cannot make out more than two or three lines. It definitely impedes the enjoyment of the songs.
Still, this is simply a wonderful album. I simply can't get enough of "Playhouses," but love "Dirtywhirl" very nearly as much. Other highlights include "Hours," "A Method," "Let the Devil In," "I Was a Lover," and "Tonight."
I want to close by saying that while TV on the Radio is often described as an art-rock band--a description that for me, with my preference for garage and punk rock, is usually a dirty word--I didn't find them off putting and pretentious in the least, as I often do with such acts. This is just great music and should excite anyone who loves great music whatever its genre.
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The vinyl package features two 180g heavyweight black vinyl discs in gatefold jacket and insert.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
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