This is the album that TV on the Radio was destined to make. The other albums they have made deserve mention, especially “Return to Cookie Mountain” but none are as coherent and determined as this one. I will concede that “Staring at the Sun” off their EP “Desperate Youth, Blood Thirsty Babes” may be as close to perfection as TVOTR has ever come. Dear Science stands out more as an album and is more even than their other projects. “Wolf like Me” was a standout off Return to Cookie Mountain but no other song came close to matching it, leading me to find that album as more frustrating than rewarding.
TVOTR’s music comes from a variety of genres and makes them difficult to classify, but on Dear Science they really made their sound distinct and their own. An electronic song like “Crying” flows into the neo-funk “Dancing Choose”. On this album they really treat the studio like an instrument, making the production on this album stand out. Overall, Dear Science is about as tight and coherent album as a group like TV on the Radio can make.
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