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Dear Science
by: TV On The Radio

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Availability: Usually dispatched within 24 hours Binding: Audio CD
EAN: 0652637282122
Label: 4ad
Manufacturer: 4ad
Number Of Discs: 1
Publisher: 4ad
Release Date: September 22, 2008
Studio: 4ad
Sales Rank: 46

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Amazon.co.uk Review:
For a few years now Brooklyn's TV on the Radio's obtuse but powerful art-rock has been consistently acclaimed by critics and peers without quite entering mainstream consciousness, a state of affairs the release of Dear Science is about to change for good. On their third studio set, their best and most cohesive album to date, the five mad scientists that make up TVOTR (no exaggeration--the sleeve photo captures them in a laboratory looking very serious) have managed to marry their love for the sonically indulgent to some seriously impressive songwriting. The results are always convincing and occasionally stunning. Sometime actor Tunde Adebimpe's yearning voice at times evokes eighties icons from Prince to Peter Gabriel while David Sitek, the band member behind the board, enhances his reputation as a producer, placing detailed strings and horn arrangements alongside the most unearthly and inorganic sounds. Brilliant single "Golden Age" sounds like an imaginary collaboration of David Bowie and Michael Jackson, the lovely "Family Tree" is a ballad beamed from the future while the furious, fascinating "Dancing Choose" is a hit in waiting. Ranging from the funky ("Red Dress") to the frantic ("Shout Me Out"), and even revisiting their admitted penchant for, er, barbershop harmonies (the heroic "Halfway House"). Dear Science is one of the albums of the year. --Steve Jelbert

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Average Rating: out of 5 stars

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- TV On The Radio enter their Golden Age
This deliciously packaged fourth album from the fantastic TV On The Radio is a real gem. Following on from their 2006 album Return to Cookie Mountain, the album has a distinctly different feel. Where RtCM played with expansive sounds and interesting rhythms, 'Dear Science' has a more refined and cleaner sound. Don't worry, their delightful percussion is still there, just less pronounced, making room for a large use of sax and brass, and as such the tracks on Dear Science have a fuller sound when compared to their previous album.

I was already slightly familiar with 'Golden Age' having heard it on the radio a few times, and I'd heard Family Tree once, but these songs are only the tip of the iceberg when you listen to the whole album. ... Read More:

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- Hmmmmmmmm....
Not convinced about this album - sure, it has some great melodies but the music sounds like it was all created on a PC, and some singing sounds disturbingly similar to Coldplay. Their performance on Later...was a lot more organic (and enjoyable)

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- Does,nt blind with science but with brilliance
Buying TV On The Radio's new album was a dichotomous experience. On the one hand I ,was , like any right thinking person, looking forward to hearing it immensely after loving their last albumReturn to Cookie Mountain. Yet I was also girding myself for what could have been a major disappointment . How could they top their last album? Hell....I'd have settled for them coming somewhere near .Yet , having heard Dear Science , I am now aware I should have had more faith for not only is not a let down it is in actuality even better than RTCM.
While their previous album was an intoxicating aural mixture of propulsive linear rock grooves, autumnal jazz tones, scuffed up funk and pop, though it's pop filtered through several gauzy layers of dissonance ... Read More:

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- Scientific Marvel
When you open the inner sleeve to `Dear Science' you are presented with a picture of the band standing moodily in a science lab. I had to stifle a laugh - `these guys are making it too easy for me'. What a serious business this sonic experimentation must be - after all, the entire chin stroking indie intelligencia are waiting outside the lab with hungry ears! `Return to Cookie Mountain' sounded like it had been cooked up in a lab - it was like a well constructed chemistry experiment that was just missing the spark, the catalyst. By no means a bad album but something was undeniably missing.

So I started sharpening my surgical implements ready to take this thing to pieces.

Now this is curious. The patient jumped off the table, ... Read More:

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- Gobsmacked
I bought this cd after a long search for something new and different being pretty bored with most that is going on today. Not that impressed after the first hearing but when you listen again it is easy to see that there is something good here. Two weeks later I now think that it is the best cd I have bought in many years, just give it a chance.

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