For this Monday’s Tune I’ve chosen to include the song “Halfway Home” by TV on the Radio, who were featured on Monday’s Tune last year.
The song is from the album ‘Dear Science’ which was named the best album of 2008 by Rolling Stone, The Guardian, Spin Magazine, Consequence of Sound, MTV, Entertainment Weekly, Pitchfork Media’s readers poll, and was ranked 7th in Q Magazine’s list of the 50 best albums of 2008, where it was described as “art rock with a human face”. [click to continue…]
TV on the Radio - Desperate Youth, Blood Thirsty Babes
The first Monday’s Tune of 2008… with hopes for great sounds this year.
TV on the Radio is a Brooklyn based avant-garde rock band formed in 2001. Their music spans genres as diverse as indie-rock, electro, trip-hop, free jazz, doo-wop and soul.
Today’s song is “Staring at the Sun”, appeared in TVOTR’s first LP Desperate Youth, Blood Thirsty Babes.
As an extra, here is the video for the song “Wolf Like Me”, the first single from their 2006 album ‘Return to Cookie Mountain’.