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TV on the Radio

A gritty, lo-fi blueprint of the Brooklyn art-rock sound. Distorted drum machines meet soulful harmonies in a basement-recorded collage of urban anxiety.

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It's like a dusty, distorted basement tape of a band trying to figure out how to be geniuses.

A restless, unpolished collision of urban anxiety and soulful experimentation.

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Raw+3.6σ

The vocals lean far further into raw than the rest of the catalogue.

Tracklist · 18 Tracks
01
Freeway
2:16
02
Say You Do
5:17
03
Pulse of Pete
3:32
04
Me - I
3:16
05
Buffalo Girls
2:55
06
Ending of a Show
1:05
07
Hurt You
6:25
08
Netti Fritti con Volante
5:11
09
Yr God
2:31
10
On a Train
16:04
11
Sheba Baby
3:52
12
Y-King
2:39
13
Aim to Please (Shoot to Kill)
3:03
14
Bicycles Are Redhot
3:53
15
Los Mataban
2:56
16
Robots
3:06
17
Doing My Duty
5:48
18
[untitled]
0:04
Moments Worth Waiting For
the sudden shift from the jittery beat of Freeway into the soulful, unpolished vocal harmonies of Say You Do
the massive sixteen-minute sprawl of On a Train where the repetition becomes a hypnotic, industrial meditation
the way Bicycles Are Redhot strips back the noise to reveal a fragile, melodic core that hints at their future sound
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