Return to Cookie Mountain comes out this summer sometime. I've been listening to it for a while now (you know) and it's simply stunning. It's just a wall of sound all the way through with incredible vocals and punch you in the back of the head percussion. Best of the year? For me, I think so. It's great. Not a weak song in the bunch.

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Originally posted by Johnsofats:
Return to Cookie Mountain comes out this summer sometime. I've been listening to it for a while now (you know) and it's simply stunning. It's just a wall of sound all the way through with incredible vocals and punch you in the back of the head percussion. Best of the year? For me, I think so. It's great. Not a weak song in the bunch.

Unbelievably true, Wolf Like Me(labeled Playhouses mistenly on most versions) is seizure-inducing(in a great way), Province has fucking David Bowie in it besides having one of the best damn choruses I've heard in a while, I Was a Lover is looptastic, Tonight and A Method... dear god the goodness of that album never ends. Highly recommended if you can find a dl. Also the setlist is completely wrong on most versions this is probably it:
Wolf Like Me
I Was A Lover
Province
Snakes and Martyrs
Playhouses
Let the Devil In
Dirty Whirlwind
Tonight
A Method
Blue from Down Here
Wash the Day Away
( don't switch the songs around, just change the names from what they are to these ones)

Thanks for clearing that up. For the longest time, I'd read reviews of Wolf Like Me and I'd be like, yeah it's good, but Playhouses is insane! And now I know the truth. Thank you sir. For some reason, the version I downloaded didnt have Blue from Down here on it either. Son of a bitch.

Does anyone know the street date for this?

Return to Cookie is really incredible. It is one of those rare albums that sounds better the 100th time you listen to it than it did the 99th time. It is true that this doesn't really fulfill the promise of a sparse haunting song like Blind, but frankly, this is even better.

Are they moving to a more ordinary rock sound or is still like a half an hour of listening to the singer and some electronic and guitar flourishes here and there?

Just downloaded my torrent earlier this evening. They continue to amaze me, this CD is a masterpiece. Love it.

I WANT IT.
I need Soulseek.

Okay, I heard 3 songs from the album, finally (Playhouses, Wolf Like Me, and one other) and they are all unbelievable. This could EASILY be my favorite album of the year so far when I get the whole thing.

This is a great album. No doubt one of the best released this year (probably the best.) I'm glad to see these guys are still going strong.

Admittedly, I wasn't sure if they were going to be able to stay interesting after Desperate Youths, Bloodthirsty Babes, but Return to Cookie Mountain is easily better. Last time around their album was good, but had a few holes. Not so this time around. "Wolf Like Me", "I was a Lover", and "Dirty Whirl" are completely awesome, not to mention a whole slew of other great tracks.

This is the real deal, folks. Looks like TV on the Radio are now a force to be reckoned with.

never heard of them... could you describe them?

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never heard of them... could you describe them?

They're a little difficult to describe, but I'll give it a shot. If anyone else has a better description, add on to mine by all means.

People always use eclectic to describe TV on the Radio, but that's not all that helpful in describing a band's sound. They definitely use a lot of different styles though. Jazz, psychedelia, no wave, even some a cappella stuff. Their last LP was particularly scatterbrained, but their newest is bit more focused.

Their singer, Tunde Adebimpe, is fantastic which is rare for an indie band. He's got a huge range - I'm talking great falsetto to like Type O Negative deep.

The music is pretty guitar driven, but they also use quite a bit of brass and keys along with throwing in some sampling from time to time.

As far as comparisons...their new album reminds me a litle bit of Liars' Drum's Not Dead, only without all the off key stuff and a much better singer. Kind of sounds a little like Nine Inch Nails too, I guess.

And, uhh... David Bowie guests on their new album, so they must be good, right? -_-

go here for clips and info and pics etc:

http://www.touchandgorecords.com/bands/band.php?id=28

i guess i am the only person on the internet who isn't in love with the new record. wolf like me and i was a lover are really good songs, and there are a couple others, but overall this record sounds more flat than their last LP, which also had like 4 great songs, probably because the two best songs are tracks one and two. if they released only eps they would seem like the best band going today...but they don't and they aren't.

You're not alone, not eric. I have not heard the entire album yet, but the few tracks I have heard didn't impress me as much as the best tracks on Desperate Youth. Their sound seems a lot fuller, and I think part of what I liked about their previous efforts was the sparseness of their sound. It really seemed to showcase the vocals, which IMHO is the main attraction of the band. But we'll see. Maybe the album is better as a whole.

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You're not alone, not eric. I have not heard the entire album yet, but the few tracks I have heard didn't impress me as much as the best tracks on Desperate Youth. Their sound seems a lot fuller, and I think part of what I liked about their previous efforts was the sparseness of their sound. It really seemed to showcase the vocals, which IMHO is the main attraction of the band. But we'll see. Maybe the album is better as a whole.

Listen to it completely, and give it a few good listens all the way through....which is what I did and now i cant stop listening to it.

I'm pretty impressed with this. It's probably the best thing I've heard this year, which isn't saying a ton, but nonetheless its really good. It sounds to me like the "great rock album" rock fans have been waiting for Prince to make for 20 years. Wolf Like Me sounds like Andre 3000 covering Bloc Party. To me, Province is the best song on the album, and its easily my favorite song since Wolf Parade's I'll Believe in Anything. Its a damn good record, highly recommended.

I found the video for Province it's a bit weird but the song is awesome (as you all know!).

Province

I've been chronically underwhelmed by this record since the day I first listened to it. I think it has solid moments but really trips up on a couple tracks:
Playhouses - the frantic percussion and tuneless mumbling of the verse sections are horrid. I have never had any desire to repeat this track.
Let The Devil In - overblown and extremely one-dimesional. Previous great songs like "Staring At The Sun" also rode simple concepts to great heights.
"Tonight" - never reaches the appropriate highs promised by this beautiful opening.

I am a big fan of these guys. very unique eclectic sound. "Wolf Like Me" is definitely my favorite track on Cookie Mountain. I saw them live a few months ago at Download Festival in San Francisco, and they were very good.

Delicious, delicious, delicious... These boys have some soul power for sure... I saw them in Anacortes, Washington in a tiny little room for 5 bucks... Amazing show.