Emerging in 2003 with the EP Young Liars, which featured the song "Staring at the Sun", TV on the Radio's lineup includes figures such as producer and multi-instrumentalist David Andrew Sitek and vocalist Tunde Adebimpe, who is a painter and has a degree in film. Before the EP Young Liars, the band released an album in 2002, completely independently, entitled OK Calculator, a clear allusion to Radiohead's OK Computer.
The band, formed in 2001 in New York (Brooklyn), included David's brother, Jason Sitek. After recording the EP Young Liars, vocalist and guitarist Kyp Malone took Jason's place. Desperate Youth, Blood Thirsty Babes, the band's acclaimed official debut album, released in 2004 by Touch and Go Records, is closer to post-rock than to the indie punk practiced by their bandmates from Yeah Yeah Yeahs. Despite the captivating atmosphere conveyed by the band's music, the highlight of TV on the Radio is Adebimpe's vocals, which, as mentioned before, really remind us of Peter Gabriel.
Return to Cookie Mountain, the group's second album, was released in 2006. This was followed by the acclaimed Dear Science, released in 2008. In April 2011, the band released the album Nine Types of Light. That same month, on the 20th, bassist Gerard Smith, who had joined the group in 2005, died of lung cancer. The group returned with a new album, Seeds, in 2014.
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