Heather Phares of AllMusic wrote that " Seeds has a palpable sense of moving on for TV on the Radio with the band confronting loss directly on the album's first half and accepting it on the second." She found the album to be "a fine tribute to Smith and the sound of enduring unimaginable loss." Mark Beaumont of NME observed that "grief and anger are channelled into a propulsive energy, driving the quartet's synthetic pop explorations with added garage-rock urgency" and ultimately concluding that the band "have returned from an uncertain period sounding remarkably fresh." Ian Gormely of Exclaim! described it as a "sublime catharsis after the group's tragic loss and a perfect distillation of what the band do best". Many reviewers commented on the album's shift in aesthetic from the band's past work, attributing it to the passing of long-time band member Gerard Smith. ![]() At Metacritic, which assigns a normalized rating out of 100 to reviews from mainstream critics, the album received an average score of 78, based on 30 reviews, indicating "generally favorable reviews". Seeds was positively received by most critics. ![]() Reception Professional ratings Aggregate scores We've been through a lot of stuff in the past few years that could have stopped the band cold, but I'm glad we got it together and took stock of the unique connection we have between each other because the record is, 1,000 percent, without a doubt, the best thing we've ever done. The band announced the album on July 29, 2014. It was pretty much the same situation as when we started making music." Release Lead singer Tunde Adebimpe explained, "It was nice to be somewhere where you're not exactly on the clock and worried about how much everything is costing you. Seeds was recorded in Los Angeles, at guitarist Dave Sitek's Federal Prism home studio. The album's first single, " Happy Idiot", was released on September 2, 2014. It is the band's first album since the 2011 death of their bassist, Gerard Smith. "We have something to ask.Seeds is the fifth studio album by American art rock band TV on the Radio, released on Novemthrough Harvest Records. "A lot of bands have something to say," explains TV On The Radio producer/multi-instrumentalist David Sitek. And that's ultimately what TV On The Radio still look to achieve with their music: a connection, to make people feel something, anything no matter how up or down a song's arrangement is. Adebimpe attacks 'Dancing Choose' like a mic-wielding battle MC, and there are the glimmers of drum & bass, drunken horn sections, and carefully-plucked film score strings that spice up what's clearly TVOTR's most challenging effort yet, rewriting the group's supposed gloomy, stormy aesthetics but always with the same emotional core. While album opener, 'Halfway Home', was vintage TVOTR with its speaker-swallowing canvas of careening beats, buzzing riffs and bloodletting vocals, it proved was a red herring for the experimentations that were to comprise the rest of the record. Third studio album, Dear Science, was released September 2008 to widespread critical acclaim. Densely layered, Return to Cookie Mountain was a collection of songs that required hi-def headphones to truly appreciate, and was awash with guest appearances from David Bowie, Celebration, Antibalas, Blonde Redhead, and Yeah Yeah Yeahs' Nick Zinner. The band’s second studio album, Return to Cookie Mountain, leaked in early 2006 and garnered pre-release praise from such outlets as Pitchfork before its official release in July. Taut, fearsome, intelligent and highly literate, the record established TV On The Radio as a formidable band willing to challenge and provoke, rained equally in critical plaudits. Signing to 4AD, the band’s full-length debut, Desperate Youth, Blood Thirsty Babes was released in March 2004. Following the release of Young Liars, Malone joined the band as a full time member, along with drummer Jaleel Bunton and bassist Gerard Smith who rounded out the rhythm section. Although only an EP, the four songs brimmed with a surfeit of ideas, ranging from the evocative balladry of ‘Blind’ to the spectral pop trails of ‘Staring At The Sun’. Later assisted by guitarist/vocalist Kyp Malone, the Young Liars EP was released in 2003 to startling critical acclaim and nailed Sitek's goal of sounding like a "grand four-track thing". Initially featuring Tunde Adebimpe and Dave Sitek, the first record to be credited with the band’s moniker was the self-released OK Calculator, originally an experiment devised by Sitek in order to learn how to use Pro-Tools. TV on the Radio formed in Brooklyn, New York in 2001.
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