It’s 2014, and reigns are shorter than ever. Or that when they did surprise them, it was because they had decided to write more conventional songs.Īny way you look at it, there’s also the inescapable fact that these things move fast. But maybe we took the experimentation for granted - perhaps not inconsequently, a similar narrative could be ascribed to Radiohead’s arc in recent years - and people just didn’t know how to react when TV On The Radio didn’t, well, shock them. Maybe it’s not that we took the band themselves for granted - they’re clearly extremely talented artists. This could perhaps be partially traced to the fact that, after three preceding albums over which the band continued to fake us all out and leap into different dimensions each time, Nine Types Of Light was the first TV On The Radio release made up of a bunch of songs that, conceivably, wouldn’t have been too far out of place on the preceding album. People liked it, but it didn’t dominate the conversation necessarily. After spending a few albums as reigning indie darlings and as one of the bands deemed suitable for the title of “the American Radiohead,” Nine Types Of Light seemed to go rather quietly. Why, though? Have we taken the band for granted? It certainly seems that way. It will be the band’s first LP since 2011’s Nine Types Of Light, a strong collection that somehow never quite got its due. Earlier today, TV On The Radio announced the fall 2014 release of their fifth album, Seeds.
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