TV on the Radio - Return to Cookie Mountain (with Bonus Tracks)
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Artist: TV on the RadioEdition: Music CD
CD Release Date: 2006-09-12
Music Label: Interscope Records
Soundtracks:
- I Was A Lover
- Hours
- Province
- Playhouses
- Wolf Like Me
- A Method
- Let The Devil In
- Dirty Whirl
- Blues From Down Here
- Tonight
- Wash The Day Away
- [ambient audio]
- Snakes and Martyrs
- Hours (El-P Remix)
- Things You Can Do
Music reviews of Return to Cookie Mountain (with Bonus Tracks)
Music Review: I see mucho potential
Rating: 3 Stars
I actually bought "Return From Cookie Mountain" about a year ago, and at the time I was not sure what to make of it.. I enjoyed the material, but I found the album to be generally lacking in emotional content. I sung along, but was also confounded by its mezzo-forte studio-phonic aesthetic. At the time, I intended to write a perfectly apathetic review, expressing my confusion about the fact that I did not like it that much, but I did not hate it either.
BUT ...usually.... this kind of internal dialogue indicates I have a great album that I just don't "get" yet. Why are many of my favorite albums ones that I had to come back to? Quite literally, just a few months ago, I came to understand "Tommy." Why, after not listening to it for several months, am I not listening to "Return to Cookie Mountain" every day?
A quandary then: If I listen to the new album, I will probably reconsider the statement that "Return to Cookie Mountain" tried to make. It seems, then, that the time is ripe to post a review; despite the fact that I think I still may not have plumbed its depths.
"Return to Cookie Mountain" presents itself as a Bizzaro-world collage that combines the irreverence of Fishbone with the acoustic sensibilities of David Bowie. Initially, it seemed like a wash of digitally atmospheric post-grunge, but it is within that atmosphere that "Return to Cookie Mountain" really shines. The sample becomes as important as the handclap. Fans of the Arcade Fire will most likely find something interesting here, but for some reason TV on the Radio feels less ostentatious. I'm really looking forward to checking out their new album.
THE LOWDOWN: As always, when I am curious about a group, I do a YouTube search. I think that this band is better live than they are on record. I'm not sure that "Return to Cookie Mountain" is TV on the Radio's finest moment, but it certainly points toward a compelling future for the group. They invert the rock-to-rap aesthetic that Faith No More established years ago by commenting on white American culture through an African-American lens.
Description of Return to Cookie Mountain (with Bonus Tracks)
Their second album and first for Interscope is almost wholly brilliant. Like Mogwai, Sigur Ros and a dozen others, TVOTR excels at making slowly-evolving tunes with vaguely anthemic choruses and lots of loud-soft dynamics. Unlike virtually any of those other bands, TV on the Radio mix a genuine and actual songwriting ability with their knack for finding sounds that appear to be "new." This record is crisper-sounding and incorporates more dance-based elements, but it's essentially a pop album. While the lack of the free web-released "Dry Drunk Emperor, a tribute to President Bush, is initially a bummer, the album percolates with enough pre-apocalyptic tension to satisfy anyone. In a Prince-pitched falsetto, the group sings "I was a lover/ Before this war," While throughout, the combination of melody and invention is always pitch-perfect (well, except on "Province" and "Let the Devil In," those songs sort of suck.) People of Earth: please make this band into total superstars and buy several copies of their album: one for the car, another for the office, etc. What we really need in our popular music is more weirdness, and more truth. --Mike McGonigalGeneral CDs
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