So let's talk about the wrong way, specifically the way I was introduced to TV On The Radio via the opening track on this album called fittingly "The Wrong Way." Unlike the similarly titled Sublime track, this song has no hoppy joy or silly trombone solo. It does have shitty saxophones and a heavily distorted guitar drone that sounds like one long sustained fart throughout. The vocals are warbly and indecipherable, and the attempted harmonies are insults to the very concept of singing. As the song continues more and more noises join in to add to the muck. With such a cluttered pile of shit hitting lead off I have really no idea what to expect going forward.
Looks like I'm gonna have to deal with people pretending they have no fucking clue how to sing for the entire runtime. On every track thus far one of the backup singers does a harmony in a straining falsetto. I guess everyone wants to have a sound that stands out and TV On The Radio is trying to corner that "awful vocal harmony" market.
"Ambulance" is an a capella track, and in another unfortunate choice TV On The Radio had decided the baseline should go thusly: "Dumb Dumb Dumb Dumb Dumb Dumb Dumb Dumb Dumb Dumb Dumb Dumb Dumb Dumb Dumb Dumb Dumb Dumb Dumb Dumb Dumb Dumb Dumb Dumb..." I think it's apt.
From what I've read TV On The Radio can be classified as indie-rock, which pisses me off, but fits with their style of picking one simple bass progression and never changing it throughout the song. They're also called art rock, which I guess it what you call music where most of the band does whatever the fuck they want and the result kinda sorta sounds like a song. To me it's a lot of useless noise on top of a few interesting ideas. 2 stars.
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