Performer Notes

This is an Enhanced CD, which contains both regular audio tracks and multimedia computer files.
TV On The Radio: Kyp Malone (vocals, guitar, loops); Tunde Adebimpe (vocals, loops); David Andrew Sitek.
Additional personnel: Katrina Ford (vocals); Nick Zinner (guitar); Martin Perna (flute); Jaleel Bunton (drums).
Brooklyn trio TV ON THE RADIO first started creating a stir in 2003 with their Liars/Yeah Yeah Yeahs connections and striking debut EP, which made many year-end best-of lists despite its short length. The band's much-anticipated debut full-length is essentially a stylistic continuation of the sound forged on the EP. There's a strong influence of what could only be called art-rock; singer Tunde Adebimpe's voice strongly resembles that of Peter Gabriel, and the band conjures thick, atmospheric clouds of multi-layered keyboards. However, there's also a distinctively punk side to DESPERATE YOUTH, BLOOD THIRSTY BABES that's a reflection not only of the band's peers, but of homage subtly paid to the post-punk likes of PiL or Pere Ubu. Tension, emotion, and friction reign throughout, as a current of unease drifts through the album, making the listening experience simultaneously rich and slightly unsettling.

Professional 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."

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Album: DESPERATE YOUTH, BLOOD THIRSTY [Vinyl]
#	Song Title		Time
	Disc 1
1)	The Wrong Way	More Info...	0:04
2)	Staring at the Sun	More Info...	0:03
3)	Dreams	More Info...	0:05
4)	King Eternal	More Info...	0:04
5)	Ambulance	More Info...	0:05
6)	Poppy	More Info...	0:06
7)	Don't Love You	More Info...	0:05
8)	Bomb Yourself	More Info...	0:05
9)	Wear You Out	More Info...	0:07
10)	You Could Be Love	More Info...

Album: DESPERATE YOUTH, BLOOD THIRSTY [Vinyl]
#	Song Title		Time
	Disc 1
1)	The Wrong Way	More Info...	0:04
2)	Staring at the Sun	More Info...	0:03
3)	Dreams	More Info...	0:05
4)	King Eternal	More Info...	0:04
5)	Ambulance	More Info...	0:05
6)	Poppy	More Info...	0:06
7)	Don't Love You	More Info...	0:05
8)	Bomb Yourself	More Info...	0:05
9)	Wear You Out	More Info...	0:07
10)	You Could Be Love	More Info...