For album number five, the first panel after the death of their bassist Gerard Smith, they now abandoning the usual continuity and venture out to the extremes. Optical wrapped effective in colorful fabrics, giving the four on the one hand mercilessly pop songs like Careful You and Right Now mark a significant swing towards dance floor and glitter ball, the former intricacy is here given way to a supple grace. Those who try such, already has immensely careful that the border crossing between pop and art does not end in the banality. TV On The Radio, however, are smart enough not to overdo it, though, the pieces stay tight and never lose the charm of the extraordinary.
Again and again they accentuate the catchy melodies with surprising stylistic devices: dominant, dry Beats for Love Stained, enchanting guitar hooks with Happy Idiot, the delicate test pilot not only sounds the title because as though they had met with The Notwist in the studio. A completely different direction with a four beat the winter and Lazerray. The former opens with a conventional Bluesrockriff that would not secure out at less talented musicians and the expectable bad end so here. But the purpose mixing a ton bass drum gives the song a completely different rotation and leaves him as the voltage. The second piece makes with casual Gabba Gabba Hey on the Ramones and so awakens the memory of the live shows of the quartet, which also gladly times a harder board as Fugazis Waiting Room is drilled. One can therefore estimate that the concerts, because it again next year are planning a roundup across Europe, not be boring mapambulo: blog
