Seeds TV On The Radio

• 1 Quartz 03:58
• 2 Careful You 05:12
• 3 Could You 04:02
• 4 Happy Idiot 03:03
• 5 Test Pilot 04:42
• 6 Love Stained 04:21
• 7 Ride 06:29
• 8 Right Now 04:23
• 9 Winter 03:41
• 10 Lazerray 03:37
• 11 Trouble 04:34
• 12 Seeds 04:45
• Total Runtime 52:47

Info for Seeds

Es ist ihr erstes neues Album nach über drei Jahren – seit Bassist Gerard Smith im Frühjahr 2011 dem Lungenkrebs erlag – und dem riesigen Erfolg des Vorgängers 'Nine Types Of Light'. Nun kehren die Indie-Avantgardisten und Sound-Experimentalisten TV On The Radio mit 'Seeds' zurück und liefern ein Album ab, das besser ist, als alle vorherigen zusammen. Zumindest ist das die selbstbewusste Behauptung von Frontmann Tunde Adebimpe, dessen Worten man gerne nach Hören der ersten beiden Auskopplungen 'Happy Idiot' und 'Careful You' glauben mag.

'Wir haben in den vergangenen Jahren so viele Dinge miteinander erlebt, die die Band an ihr Ende hätten bringen können, aber ich bin froh, dass wir das durchgestanden haben und dass wir von der einzigartigen Verbindung zwischen uns profitieren konnten. Die Platte ist zu 1000% und ohne jeden Zweifel, das Beste was wir je gemacht haben.'

So ist 'Seeds' geprägt von frenetischen Beats, progressiven und experimentellen Synthie-Sounds, Adebimpes mal hypnotisch betörender, mal motivierend sonorer Stimme und spiegelt die pure Lust und Leidenschaft am Kreieren von Sounds und perfektionierter Musikkunst einer Band wider, die nach einem Schicksalsschlag nun wie Phoenix aus der Asche gestiegen ist. Schon frühere Alben wie 'Desperate Youth, Blood Thirsty Babes', 'Return To Cookie Mountain', 'Dear Science' und 'Nine Types Of Light' eroberten die Herzen anderer Musiker – David Bowie outete sich als Riesenfan der Band – und natürlich ihrer Fans. Umso größer war die Sorge nach dem tragischen Tod von Gerard Smith und es war zunächst unklar, wie es für die Band weitergehen wird. Im April 2013 gab Frontmann Tunde Adebimpe schließlich bekannt, dass die Band sich wieder ins Studio begeben würde, um an einem neuen Album zu arbeiten.

Gemeinsam mit David Andrew Sitek, der nicht nur Produzent der Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Kelis oder Foals sondern zudem der Gitarrist der Band ist, begaben sich TVOTR für die Aufnahmen zwölf neuer Tracks ins Federal Prism Studio in Los Angeles und produzierten ihr mittlerweile sechstes Studioalbum – zählt man ihren Erstling 'Ok Calculator', den sie in Eigenregie veröffentlichten, mit dazu.

Tunde Adebimpe, vocals
David Andrew Sitek, guitar, keyboards
Kyp Malone, vocals, guitar
Jaleel Bunton, drums

Recorded at Federal Prism in Los Angeles, Calf.
Produced by Dave Sitek

TV on the Radio
The Brooklyn-based group TV on the Radio mix post-punk, electronic, and other atmospheric elements in such a creative way that it only makes sense that their core duo, vocalist Tunde Adebimpe and multi-instrumentalist/producer David Andrew Sitek, are both visual artists as well as musicians. Adebimpe is a graduate of NYU's film school and specializes in stop-motion animation, which his Brothers Quay-like video for the Yeah Yeah Yeahs single "Pin" amply demonstrates. He is also a painter, as is Sitek, who also produced the Yeah Yeah Yeahs' Machine EP and their full-length Fever to Tell.

The duo met when Sitek moved into the building where Adebimpe had a loft; each of them had been recording music on his own, but realized their sounds would work well together. Sitek's brother Jason began playing drums and other instruments with the pair during their recording sessions, which resulted in OK Calculator, a self-released disc of four-track recordings. Jason Sitek left the band for a short time due to other musical commitments but returned to the band when it recorded its Touch & Go debut, the Young Liars EP.

After the EP was completed, TV on the Radio added guitarist/vocalist Kyp Malone to their fold. Young Liars, which also features the Yeah Yeah Yeahs' Brian Chase and Nick Zinner, was released in summer 2003 to critical acclaim, coinciding with their gigs opening for the Fall. Their first full-length release, Desperate Youth, Blood Thirsty Babes, arrived in spring 2004. The band remained busy for the rest of the year, embarking on its own tours as well as dates with the Faint and the Pixies. That fall, they released the New Health Rock EP and won the 2004 Shortlist Music Prize.

In 2005, the band kept busy with touring and returned to Sitek's Stay Gold studio to work on its second album. They also made an MP3 criticizing President George W. Bush, "Dry Drunk Emperor," available on their website. TV on the Radio signed with 4AD for European distribution of their albums and moved to Interscope in the U.S. In summer 2006 they resurfaced with Return to Cookie Mountain, a more polished but still searching collection of songs that featured David Bowie on backing vocals. The band went in a sleeker direction on 2008's Dear Science, which featured cameos from Antibalas and Celebration's Katrina Ford.

The band went on hiatus following Dear Science. Malone worked on his own project, Rain Machine, and appeared on Iran's 2009 album Dissolver, while Sitek formed the collaborative pop project Maximum Balloon, which released its self-titled debut in 2010. As planned, their hiatus ended the following year, and TV on the Radio released their fifth album, Nine Types of Light, early in 2011. In March of that year, the band announced that bassist Gerard Smith, who had joined the TV on the Radio lineup in 2005, was suffering from lung cancer; the following month, on April 20, 2011, Smith passed away at the age of 34 as a result of the disease. Later that year, the band released World Cafe Live, taken from a set recorded for National Public Radio.

This album contains no booklet.