 Artist: TV On The Radio: mp3 download Genre(s): Indie Rock Discography:  Return to Cookie Mountain Year: 2006 Tracks: 11  Desperate Youth, Blood Thirsty Babes Year: 2004 Tracks: 9  Young Liars Year: 2003 Tracks: 5 The Brooklyn-based grouping TV on the Radio mixes post-punk, electronic, and other atmoshperic elements in such a creative way that it only makes genius that its congress of Racial Equality duo, vocaliser Tunde Adebimpe and David Andrew Sitek, ar both visual artists as well as musicians. Adebimpe is a graduate of NYU's film school and specializes in stop-motion vitality, which his Brothers Quay-like painting for the Yeah Yeah Yeahs single "PIN number" demonstrates fully. He is likewise a painter, as is Sitek, wHO also produced the Yeah Yeah Yeahs' Machine EP and their uncut Fever to Tell. The couple met when Sitek touched into the edifice where Adebimpe had a loft; each of them had been transcription music on his own, just realised their sounds would make well together. Sitek's brother Jason began playing drums and other instruments with the mate during their recording sessions, which resulted in a self-titled, 24-track CD released by the Brooklyn Milk depression. Jason Sitek left wing the banding for a short fourth dimension due to other musical commitments simply returned to the dance orchestra when they recorded their Touch and Go debut, the Offspring Liars EP. Afterward the EP was realised, TV on the Radio added guitarist/vocalist Kyp Malone to their fold. Offspring Liars, which likewise features the Yeah Yeah Yeahs' Brian Chase and Nick Zinner, was released in summertime 2003 to critical clap, simultaneous with their gigs opening for the Fall. Their number one full-length button, Desperate Youth, Blood Thirsty Babes arrived in springtime 2004. The band remained busy for the rest of the year, embarking on their own tours as good as dates with the Faint and the Pixies. That fall, they released the Unexampled Health Rock EP and won the 2004 Shortlist Prize. In 2005, the band kept in use with touring and returned to Sitek's Stay Gold studio to work on their second album. They likewise made an MP3 criticizing President George W. Bush, "Juiceless Drunk Emperor," available on their website. TV on the Radio signed with 4AD for European statistical distribution of their albums and affected to Interscope in the U.S. In summertime 2006 they resurfaced with Return to Cookie Mountain, a more than polished only still inquisitory collection of songs that featured David Bowie on patronage vocals. |
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