TV on the Radio-Return To Cookie Mountain (2006)


 

Artist: TV On The Radio

Title: Return To Cookie Mountain

Label: Interscope

Format:  CD

Cat #  B0007466-02

Year of Release: 2006

Country and Year of Edition Issue: US 2006 hole punch in UPC

Listed Condition: VG+/VG+

Sell Date: 5/16/22

Sell Price: $2.99

Discogs Last Sold: 5/21/22 $2.00

Low: $0.84

Median: $2.25

Average: $2.74

High:$6.99

Current low price:$1.23

Current Number on Sale at Discogs:49

Have/Want: 998/78

Where Sold: Redlands, CA

Time it took to sell: 11 years

Where and When Bought: internet end of 2006

Gwiz-gau Letter Grade: B+

Sad To See It Go: No

TV on the Radio were one of those "critic bands" of the mid-aughts where friends of mine would also sing their praises.   Since they started on Touch n' Go, this meant I bought their releases out of the gate but I never formed a concrete opinion of any of their stuff including ever seeing the band live.  I guess it's a bucket list band whose time was altered with bass player Gerard Smith's passing in 2011, though they seem to still exist even though the last album is 2014.

So anyway Bowie is on the track "Province."  I never knew that the Thin White Duke was on this, let alone see the video for the track until today, so shows you how much I read music press beyond lists and possibly a skimmed paragraph here and there.  Now that the "secret" is out, I feel like I can hear him in the song, but it's a blended experience.  Of the 2 videos I never saw, this wasn't the lone song that I recognized.  That goes to "Wolf Like Me" which certainly was heard amidst the Strokes, Franz Ferdinand and whatever else got played in "alternative" rock clubs by then-20-something DJ's in the mid-aughts.  Not a put down or pining for the recentish "old days," just what I remember about music of the mid-aughts in general,  which is very little.

TV On The Radio have enough varied sounds here to make me like it after repeated listens.  You hear a vocal thread from Funkadelic to Earth, Wind and Fire to Prince to here especially on the opening track "I Was A Lover," even though the sound is an alt-rock setting.  With the move to Interscope you get some major production flourishes with more electronics, but you also get some sounds like on "A Method" that sound like they'd fit into Swans/Foetus trash can oil drum territory.  They do "Let The Devil In" in the form of gang-whoa-oh-oh alternerna vocals that were common for the genre in that era.  The sort that get featured for licensing in someone's ad for jeans or cars on a open dirt road.  "Wash The Day" is a strong one with Beach Boys harmonies and sitar, yet not sounding particularly 60's retro.

The sound of young Brooklyn, 16 years removed.

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