TV on the RadioBest TV on the Radio Albums Ranked
8.3
Avg Score
27
Opinions
6
Albums
7
Reviewers
Summary from 27 ratings
On Wavelength, fans have rated TV on the Radio's catalog across 6 albums from 27 opinions, with an overall average of 8.3/10. The top-rated TV on the Radio album is Return To Cookie Mountain (2006) with a 8.9/10 average from 4 ratings, followed by Dear Science and Young Liars - EP. The discography on Wavelength spans 2003 to 2014. Wolf Like Me ranks as the highest-rated TV on the Radio song on Wavelength with a 9.4/10 average.
Desperate Youth, Blood Thirsty Babes
“An expanded reissue calls back to the tumultuous era that produced the New York band’s landmark 2004 debut, which posed desperate pleasure as a way of making meaning in a hostile world.”
Dear Science
“Musically shit-hot but also brainy and ambivalent, the latest from TV on the Radio cements them as a true Event Band, and the sign o’ the times they capture here isn’t audacious hope, or fierce revolution: It’s confusion. They’re the house band for a country that has no idea what’ll hit it next.”
Return To Cookie Mountain
“Brooklynites' third full-length and major label debut is dense, kaleidoscopic, and challenging, both the band's finest record and a highlight of 2006.”
Return To Cookie Mountain
“On their 2004 debut, Desperate Youth, Blood Thirsty Babes, TV on the Radio tended to put the art before the rock, which made the idea-packed disc more interesting than it was appealing. For their major-label follow-up, the Brooklyn art rockers have honed and amplified the best elements of the previous album — monster synth riffs, […]”
Young Liars - EP
“I'm not a spiritual person, nor am I easily moved by musical sentiment; a sort of innately critical shell forces me to appreciate sincere artistic outpourings from a distance in order to more fully examine them. Critics have to understand and express with seemingly imagined words like "luminous" what listeners will often simply feel in terms more like "awesome." We're not immune to the "awesome" b”
Nine Types of Light
“On 2008’s Dear Science, these Brooklyn artistes brought twitchy dance rock with an apocalyptic edge. Well, the end of all things must’ve been pretty bitchin’, because the follow-up is pure heaven. "I’m optimistic, on overload," they sing. TVOTR’s most accessible disc rolls out grand alt-rock and thwumping future funk that’s warm and grabby — from […]”
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