Description:	LP on 4AD
	Format:	LP (vinyl)
	Genre(s):	Experimental Pop
	Label:	4AD
	Price:	£12.49
	Availability:	Sold out / currently unavailable. Sorry!

5
...according to our Brian on 18 November 2006.

I'd say the only gig that's ever had both me and our man Clint both "rocking" at the exact same time, all the way through was TV on the Radio a couple of years ago. They sent shivers up my spine throughout, precisely because they looked & felt so natural but offered a sublime & original take on thought provoking electrified  pop. On 'Return to Cookie Mountain', the Peter Gabriel-isms remain. The songs are unfurling many-layered epics that build so gracefully & open up gradually (like a butterfly of sound - hahaha) as there's so much to take in first listen. Denser than it's predecessor, the magical songwriting hasn't been diluted at all. It's the slow to mid tempo pace of the best songs that allows these atmosphere laden gems to breathe life into your jaded musical heart. I can't be arsed namechecking bands as there's not many that come anyplace close but in a sphere of their own creation, TV on the Radio are No. 1 in my heart! Album of the week without a quibble.

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What their label says...

Desperate Youth, Bloodthirsty Babes, which came out in 2004 - established TVOTR as one of the most exciting and genuinely innovative bands to have emerged from the American musical underground in years. That record earned them the Shortlist Prize - the US equivalent of the Mercury Music Prize - and a devoted global fanbase thrilled by the band's blend of post-rock, soul, New York new wave and deepest dub.

And if Desperate Youth, Bloodthirsty Babes - with its moody textures and refusenik lyrics - was a monochrome question mark, the follow-up is an technicolour exclamation mark. Recorded at the band's own Stay Gold studio in Brooklyn, it's a thrilling sugar-rush - colourful, inventive, wildly ambitious and genuinely celebratory. It's packed with the kind of intuitive moves that few other bands could even imagine, never mind pull off, from the psychedelic, sample-drenched "I Was A Lover", to the radiant ascent of "Province", to the euphoric break-down and build-up of the truly feral single-to-be "Wolf Like Me".

Return To Cookie Mountain features a guest appearance from self-confessed TVOTR fan David Bowie, as well as from labelmates Kazu Makino (Blonde Redhead) and Katrina Ford (Celebration). It's currently rated as one of the ten best records of 2006 at Metacritic.