TV On The Radio
Daaaaaaaaaaang! Now, that’s what we call music.
Released by the Touch & Go label in the summer of 2003, the ‘Young Liars’ EP was a minor revelation that eked out the genius of new Brooklyn trio, TV On The Radio, formed around the hub of the relationship between David Sitek and Tunde Adebimpe. Press was in rapture, a set at South By SouthWest in the first third of the following year was deemed the highlight of the entire conference, and – ever since – 4AD have been begging, along with hundreds more, to sign the band in accordance with Touch & Go.
They won out at last in the spring of ’04, and the glorious horizon fast approaching now presents us the debut-LP from the soul-pop-jazz-rock-? fusion-meisters, ‘Desperate Youth, Blood Thirsty Babes’. It’s killer. And, thanks to the threesome’s relentless touring-gauge, they’re set to be gracing the stage of every f**king bar and venue the globe over. That is, until the enormodome beckons.
OFFICIAL WEBSITE: A scarily minimalist website which is scant of info of the band. Which makes you want them all that much more.
4AD: That legendary record-label that also brought us the BeeGees, Westlife and O-Town (as well as Pixies, Piano Magic and Cocteau Twins).