Return To Cookie Mountain Out Now
03 July 06
TV On The Radio's kaleidoscopic and addictive new album Return To Cookie Mountain is out now.
You can buy it from the 4AD shop and from the following retailers :
• Play
• Amazon
• HMV
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.
"a monster and a masterpiece"
NME (9/10)
"this album has such an incredible pull"
Pitchfork (9.1)
"a sumptuous soul salvo ... drenched in melody, eerie as hell and frighteningly consistent - Album Of The Year"
Arena (5/5)
"little short of magical" Uncut (4/5)
"a delight - an experimental album with a pop heart"
The Guardian (4/5)
"spellbinding ... wonderful"
Observer Music Monthly (4/5)
"evidence of fearless imaginations at play, Cookie Mountain is a triumph of psychedelic melody, drone and eerie groove"
Mojo (4/5)
"more than deserving of your worshipful attention. Hallelujah !"
Time Out (5/6)
"excellent ... an album full of playful daring"
Q (4/5)
"ceaselessly inventive and tuneful"
The Observer
"underlying it all is a glorious pop sensibility"
Independent On Sunday (4/5)
TV On The Radio will be touring in Japan, Australia, Europe, North America and South America between now and the end of the year.
