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TV ON THE RADIO - SEEDS: Something simple but quite attractive
Seeds is the upcoming fifth studio album by American art rock band TV on the Radio, scheduled to be released on November 17, 2014 through Harvest Records. It will be the band's first album since the 2011 death of their bassist, Gerard Smith and was produced by guitarist David Sitek.
Dave Sitek has produced everyone from the Yeah Yeah Yeahs to Beady Eye, but his best work has come with Tunde Adebimpe, Kyp Malone and Jaleel Bunton: the other members of TV on the Radio (bassist Gerard Smith died in 2011). The 42-year-old Sitek produces the band in his home studio, plays guitar and keyboards, makes killer loops and rocks a Run-D.M.C. T-shirt onstage.
Their old experimental noises have now taken a back seat to 4/4 beats, jangling guitars, punky powerchords and immediate dance grooves. When weirder sounds appear, they’re within conventional pop structures, such as when Ride’s Bowie/Eno-like instrumental intro gives way to a motorik, REM-type melody. The almost-adult oriented rock of Test Pilot and Love Stained will most divide the fanbase weaned on the likes of the genre-defying Dear Science, but Seeds’s sunny melodies contain other depths
Their old experimental noises have now taken a back seat to 4/4 beats, jangling guitars, punky powerchords and immediate dance grooves. When weirder sounds appear, they’re within conventional pop structures, such as when Ride’s Bowie/Eno-like instrumental intro gives way to a motorik, REM-type melody. The almost-adult oriented rock of Test Pilot and Love Stained will most divide the fanbase weaned on the likes of the genre-defying Dear Science, but Seeds’s sunny melodies contain other depths
The album's first single, "Happy Idiot", was released on September 2, 2014.
On "Happy Idiot," the band creates one of its catchiest tunes while retaining just enough of the old weirdness to keep things off-kilter. A raw guitar riff plays against Adebimpe's shellshocked vocals. "I'm gonna bang my head to the wall till I feel like nothing at all," he mutters, trying to blot out the memory of the lover he can't have. A second guitar enters, providing a sour counterpoint to the first, as things unravel. The song tries to keep pushing ahead, but darker circumstances prevail, a musical mirror to the narrator's struggle.
Seeds tracklist:
01. Quartz
02. Careful You
03. Could You
04. Happy Idiot
05. Test Pilot
06. Love Stained
07. Ride
08. Right Now
09. Winter
10. Lazerray
11. Trouble
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