TVOTR

No-wave revivalists, avid accapella rockas and genre benders, TV on the Radio are back with the oddly titled "Return to Cookie Mountain". As a follow up to 2004's 85% brilliant Desperate Youth, Bloodthirsty Babes, it's a raw, polyrhythmic trip that is eerily pretty throughout. Much like Drums Not Dead before it, Cookie Mountain is heavy on the percussion. Unlike Drums, the album lacks any lineage, which plagued (for me) their last effort. As a whole, it doesn't flow like it feels like it should. I suppose for a band that tip-toes around the confines of categorization this may happen organically. Either way, I am enjoying the album. It's dense and still contains many of those anesthetic three-part vocal harmonies like "Ambulance" (which is one of my favorite tracks of all time). If you're into Desperate Youth, my guess is that you'd dig it. I just wish I dug it more.


I can't, however, deny how cool they look on stage.

TVOTR - Wolf Like Me
TVOTR - Playhouses