What could possibly cross your mind when looking at TV on the radio? Let's try to be honest with each other. These guys must be doing jazz, reggae something like that ... well, yeah, one's got an afro, the other one looks a little bit like a rastafari and the other guys look like they could follow.
I'll always remember the first time I had heard about them. I was reading some music articles on the internet, I see their picture and below it the caption "they must be wizards." Obviously that got me even more intrigued.
I had to know what their deal was. After listening to their first album, I'm amazed. The band who comes from Brooklyn is different, is weird, is talented.
They do not right traditional songs and they aren't jazzmen. Their sound is an electric sort of indie rock with distorted guitars, deep beats added to poetic soft vocals. It could be messy but it is clear and researched.
They've been doing music for years but still manage to give something new to what we know.
While making their last album, their bassist died of lung cancer. One of the most difficult moment for the band. However, the album in question is lush and blissful. Emotions can make you write the best lyrics and the best songs, I guess.
The music magazine Rolling Stone said: " It might the most beautiful, psychedelic and ambitious album of the year." The New York Times agreed.
Their music is indeed ambitious, probably the best word to qualify the band.
They are everything you would not think they are and that's why TV ON THE RADIO are TrUe OuTsIdeRs.
(this is a preview of their song Golden Age)
http://www.myspace.com/tvotr
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