Tunde Adebimpe, a voice that comes out of the shadows – Liberation
Placed in the opening, after the short vocal introduction which gives its name to the album, Magnetic And its bass turbine at full volume as in a dream of David Lynch, is enough to revive the excitement aroused by Desperate Youth, Blood Thirsty Babesthe first disc in 2004 of the group of which TUnde ADEBIMPE Was the singer for ten years, TV on the Radio. After this wink, extended by the effective but already more pop, Ate the Moon, The disc goes in many other directions, without disappointing.
Flashback: In the early 2000s, in full return from rock via a group generation based in Brooklyn – Liars, Radio 4, The Rapture, Yeah Yeah Yeahs which we only remember The Strokes – The four TV on the Radio, three black musicians and a white, Dave Andrew Sitek, reinvented the American alternative rock with resolutely rock sound, but open to the influences of jazz, funk and the most complex post-punk explorations. A kind of mixture between the bad brains and the saxophonist Pharoah Sanderswhich did not keep all its promises over time, probably because the compositions were not always as strong as the sound and the atmosphere created by the group. Even if a trio tour is announced this summer, TV on the radio has almost disappeared from radars since the tragic death of their bass player Gerard Smith in 2011 and the advent of Dave Andrew Sitek as Californian producer, from Scarlett Johansson to Weezer.
Suffice to say that we are happy to find the particular voice of Tunde Adebimpe, who, for the anecdote, is also an actor when the opportunity arises (we saw it in a Spider-man or a series Star Wars). Far from making TV on the radio solo, his disc takes many other roads. Thus, the malicious Pinstack evokes the great pop rhymes of the Kinks period Village Green, while The Most On the contrary, part in an electro direction at the LCD Soundsytem, just like the leaping Somebody new Who has almost an Erasure side with a more serious voice. But, whatever the management, there is fun on arrival.
A voice, a sound, guitars and machines, twenty years after James Murphy’s first album did not have a wrinkle.
A mixture of English New Wave revisited by Maryland Americans with synthesizers and a strong personality.
Difficult to classify between alternative rap, Electronica, Soul Psychedelique and Pop Arty, these Scottish people have well deserved their Mercury Prize.
