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Originally posted by thirsty moore:
I want these guys to release more.. and more… and more. I am becoming fanatical about this album

I read yesterday that their full length has been leaked, so if you try, you may be able to find it.

Thanks for the heads up.

Originally posted by thirsty moore:
I want these guys to release more.. and more… and more. I am becoming fanatical about this album

glad we're on the same page there, thirsty. I think the EP is just about the best thing I heard all 2003. can't wait for the record! Pitchfork just posed a little something about the upcoming single…

TV on the Radio: "Poppy"
Ever heard of garage doo-wop? You have now. "Poppy" pulls together the most disparate strains of TV on the Radio's music, combining old-fashioned finger-snaps and barbershop basslines with machine-press drums and industrial-grade guitars that soar upon grit-streaked wings. Instrumentalist/producer David Andrew Sitek has traded the Massive Attack-like druggy clarity of the band's Young Liars EP for a new adventure in lo-fi– granted, it's territory he's well familiar with, having got his start producing Yeah Yeah Yeahs EPs.

Young Liars was gorgeous and bulletproof, and most of Desperate Youth, Bloodthirsty Babes is consciously coarse and vulnerable. Further playing against their aces, Tunde Adebimpe's vocal presence has been reduced as he shares the mic with Kyp Malone, whose voice isn't half as authoritative, but for better or worse that's the point: a sort of daring frailty is intrinsic to the record. Does it work? On "Poppy", absolutely. An easy confidence carries the song as the guitar and drums establish themselves, disappear shy of the halfway point in a shift that hits like a time-warp, then usher in the song's climax by rejoining the mix piece-by-piece. The stroke of grace, though, is still Adebimpe's voice, both in his emotive crooning and his effortlessly catchy vocal bassline. When I walk through the industrial district, the tension wires hum it. [Chris Leslie-Hynan; January 15th, 2004]
****1/2

Oh, that timely Pitchfork:

Debut Album From TV On The Radio Due In March
Video killed the radio star
[Updated Friday, January 16th, 2004 03:00:00 Pitchfork Central Time]

Chris Leslie-Hynan reports:
TV On The Radio's debut LP, Desperate Youth, Bloodthirsty Babes, is scheduled to come out March 9th on Touch & Go. That date could theoretically move up, however, as the album has already been leaked to the Internet. The album contains nine tracks– eight new songs and a slightly-shortened version of "Staring at the Sun" (from the band's Young Liars EP, which placed at #28 on our year-end list despite having only 25 minutes of music on it). Tracklist:

01 The Wrong Way
02 Staring at the Sun
03 Dreams
04 King Eternal
05 Ambulance
06 Poppy
07 Don't Love You
08 Bomb Yourself
09 Wear You Out

In the wake of the band's LP being leaked, we talked to TV On The Radio multi-instrumentalist and producer David Andrew Sitek about their first full record.

Pitchfork: At first we weren't sure if what leaked was the finished version of the album because the production was so different from that of Young Liars.

Sitek: The dry production was an active choice of ours (seeing as how we already covered the "soupy" territory on the EP). The soup still exists with some songs on the record, but for the most part, when we added Kyp's voice to the equation… we wanted the listener to be able to hear the combination of Kyp & Tunde, and hear the lyrics… it is a more vulnerable sound that we thought would be another way to hear us… you could break the songs apart easier and see them as they are written. This way we have the freedom to use fidelity as another influence/medium and it sets the stage for another turn for us later. From a production standpoint, I am equally as fascinated by the space around the music as I am the content.

Pitchfork: How did "Staring at the Sun" end up on the album?

Sitek: We decided to put "Staring at the Sun" on the LP because we think the song is kind of a midway point from where we were and where we were going, and we really want it to be heard and since we are sending out as many promos for this album as we sold of the EP, we thought it could get us (and Katrina [Ford]'s) bad ass voice to more people.

Pitchfork: The guest performances and the production of Young Liars (you call it "soupy," we called it "hyper-real") were two of its most praised facets. What's it like making a record without either of those elements? Are you more invested in the success or failure of the record now that it's just you guys?

Sitek: As far as standing by the success or failure of the record, I think it is pretty safe to say that none of us really expected to reach as many people as we have with the EP, and if we were to "fail" by most standards it would probably put us right where we would have expected the EP to put us in the first place. We "stand" by our position of making music we are interested in, no matter what the critical fallout might be. And we will inevitably have more friends/fidelities/mixups on future recordings… we were really concentrating on Kyp and Tunde and me on this record, and how to fit such different sounds together without "muddying" it up… I think we succeeded in bring the sound "as it was" to the LP.

A little birdy just passed this one on to me. I'm only on the first song but am eagerly anticipating the next. Yowza.

Originally posted by ggwâ?¢:
01 The Wrong Way
02 Staring at the Sun
03 Dreams
04 King Eternal
05 Ambulance
06 Poppy
07 Don't Love You
08 Bomb Yourself
09 Wear You Out

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Pixies - Bossanova

I hadn't listened to it for a while, what an amazing disc. You can't get tired of it.

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olds 97 - fight songs (still my fav)
olds 97 - early tracks
olds 97 - satellite rides (better than i remember)
olds 97 - satellite rides (bonus disc)

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Tom Waits entry for the short list.

Originally posted by thirsty moore:
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ah, the first casualty of no DCCD for me, I am waiting for my copy I ordered online, how is it?

This album is the first I've ever heard by Califone so I can't really compare it to previous works. At it's very basic, you could say it's a folk rock album with lots of random noises thrown in. Insound thinks it's blues but I don't agree.

All that said, I like it.

Originally posted by pollard:
ah, the first casualty of no DCCD for me, I am waiting for my copy I ordered online, how is it?

Originally posted by thirsty moore:
This album is the first I've ever heard by Califone so I can't really compare it to previous works. At it's very basic, you could say it's a folk rock album with lots of random noises thrown in. Insound thinks it's blues but I don't agree.

All that said, I like it.

the other albums are definitely not Blues, the album before this has some fantastic songs in it, looking forward to hearing this

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John Vanderslice - Cellar Door

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