Currently touring the US, the band are heading out in support of their latest, highly acclaimed album, Seeds, featuring tunes ‘Happy Idiot’, ‘Could You’ and brand new single ‘Trouble’.

TV on the Radio will play The Tivoli, Brisbane, on Wednesday June 10 and The Forum, Melbourne, on Friday June 12, in addition to performances at Sydney’s Vivid Festival.

TV on the Radio is a quartet made up of LA-based founding members David Andrew Sitek and Tunde Adebimpe, and New York residents Jaleel Bunton and Kyp Malone.

Earlier records, Desperate Youth, Blood Thirsty Babes, Return To Cookie Mountain stole the hearts of fans and critics alike, winning the Shortlist Music Prize and Spin’s Album of the Year. Their breakout release, Dear Science was named best album of 2008 by Rolling Stone, The Guardian, Spin Magazine, The New York Times and MTV among others.

The band garnered a Grammy nomination for fourth studio album Nine Types of Light.

Fifth studio album, Seeds, is an expression of everything this band has been through in the last three years and more. They’re influential, in their prime, they’re TV on the Radio, and they’ve proven themselves to be one of the most important bands of this generation. With Seeds, TV on the Radio is brand new again.

“TV on the Radio are still capable of conquering big stages and broad sonic territory with the kind of precision and power for which their increasingly desperate older contemporaries need to rely on expensive stunts.” – Pitchfork

“TV on the Radio are undoubtedly one of modern music’s greatest bands, and witnessing them live is to experience the incomparable potency and inspired passion of boundlessly inventive art.” – Beat Magazine

“TV on the Radio have grown even more compelling as live performers since they began, as they resoundingly demonstrated with the joyful, urgent hour-long set that followed.” – Rolling Stone Magazine

TV on the Radio Australian Tour
June 8-9 – Sydney Opera House, Sydney
June 10 – Tivoli Theatre, Brisbane
June 12-13 – Forum Theatre, Melbourne
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The elements that they blend together to create their sound feel so unforced and real. When they get funky and they do often on Nine Types Of Light, you can close your eyes and just see the sly looks on their faces. The kind of look where they are letting you in on a little secret, free your mind and your ass will follow.

Weather it’s a freaky falsetto, chicken scratch guitar line or quick stab of horns, these lads live in the land of groove. Locked in and ready to soar, this band while incorporating a number of recognizable source models has combined them in such a way as to sound like no other.

Five albums in and TV On The Radio are also getting more and more comfortable with allowing emotions to escape and while previous albums have submerged a lot of their meaning in cryptic prose, the words here are more obvious than ever, still open for interpretation mind you but on the surface more accessible.

There is a mellowness at play here that seems more heartfelt emotion than just easy listening experience especially when you know the tragedy that the band has experienced with the recent death from lung cancer of long-term band member Gerard Smith. This beautiful album is a fitting tribute to a fallen brother.

Rob Hudson
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