TV On The Radio Desperate Youth, Blood Thirsty Babes
Rolling Stone: Included in Rolling Stone's Top 50 Records Of 2004 - "DESPERATE YOUTH is more proof that sometimes the best records are the most challenging."
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CD Details
- Released: March 9, 2004
- Originally Released: 2004
- Label: Touch & Go Records
Entertainment Reviews:
Rolling Stone - 3/18/04, p.73
3.5 stars out of 5 - "[The Brooklyn band is] indebted to everything from late-Eighties indie rock to classic soul music....DESPERATE YOUTH is a rebuke to their retro peers: Not all the good ideas have been taken already."Rolling Stone - p.152
Included in Rolling Stone's Top 50 Records Of 2004 - "DESPERATE YOUTH is more proof that sometimes the best records are the most challenging."Spin - p.66
Ranked #12 in Spin's "40 Best Albums of the Year" - "Easily the year's dizziest album, their debut sounds like Kanye West producing a punkabilly space-rock troupe."Q - p.124
3 stars out of 5 - "[U]niquely intriguing, weaving in influences that have no right to mesh as coherently as they do....Singer Tunde Adebimpe has fashioned a genuinely novel sound."Uncut - p.100
4 stars out of 5 - "A far more effective transcription of frantic, funky Manhattan than the CBGBs set ever dreamt of..."Uncut - p.76
Ranked #36 in Uncut's "Best New Albums of 2004" - "This smart and soulful transcription of Manhattan's frantic energy is one of the year's better discoveries."Magnet - p.67
Ranked #15 in Magnet's "The 20 Best Albums Of 2004" - "[A] subway rumble through 60 years' worth of the five boroughs' golden greats."Mojo (Publisher) - p.116
4 stars out of 5 - "[A] debut album that elegantly pursues their quest to sound like nothing they recognise....TVOTR are coming over loud and beautifully weird."Tracks:
- 1.The Wrong Way
- 2.Staring at the Sun
- 3.Dreams
- 4.King Eternal
- 5.Ambulance
- 6.Poppy
- 7.Don't Love You
- 8.Bomb Yourself
- 9.Wear You Out
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