TV On The Radio - Return To Cookie Mountain

Every so often a record perfectly encapsulates the heart of contemporary culture – a record so furiously reactive it unifies the most chaotic community. And in this post-modernistic era blurred by mass-media messages it's only right that TV On The Radio take up the mantle of societal renegades with sophomoric masterpiece Return To Cookie Mountain. Veneering and situational, it is electro-gospel guerrilla warfare. Militant drumming pounds with the hypnotic instability of Liars and, combined with the southern drawl of Tunde Adebimpe, creates a suffocating vision of global disdain. Maintaining the opaque dysfunction of 'Desperate Youth Blood Thirsty Babes', this is the aural development of a rhythmically ravenous and politically perturbed band; fusing grizzle-led funk with simmering metaphoric beat poetry. From the swirling introversion of Blues Down Here to the toxic psychedelia of Wash the Day Away, 'Return To Cookie Mountain' is a hollering call-to-arms. It's one revolution that will be televised. [Billy Hamilton)]