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Golden Age (Audio Stream)

August 19, 2008 10:07 p.m. by Ethan Stanislawski
Average Rating: 6.33

As TV on the Radio preps their upcoming album Dear Science, they have made public the first song off the album on their website. "Golden Age" is both funkier than any previous TVOTR release and the most electronica-heavy track we've heard from a band that's dabbled in electronic effects in the past. It almost sounds like Daft Punk or a similarly robotic band covering Parliament/Funkadelic. Of course, it still injects TV on the Radio's distinctive soulful indie vibe throughout.

 

We've talked a lot about the influence of Radiohead's business model with In Rainbows. This may be the first major release where the actual music of In Rainbows has influenced a band; similarities to "Bodysnatchers," albeit with a more uplifting pathos, are hard to deny.

 

All and all, we at Prefix are nothing if not intrigued by Dear Science, which is set to hit the market September 23.

 

[Stream TV On The Radio's "Golden Age" here]

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8 Responses

August 19, 2008 at 10:21 p.m.

I think this song (the music really) bears more than a passing resemblance to Breathe & Stop by Q.Tip. That opening drum part is pretty damn close.

It also sounds a lot like Station to Station-era Bowie.
August 19, 2008 at 10:29 p.m.

TVOTR has stated bowie as a major influence and he was on their albulm Return of the Cookie Monster
August 19, 2008 at 11:22 p.m.

Yeah he's always been an influence, but they haven't always sounded so similar to him as they do on this track.
August 20, 2008 at 12:25 a.m.
7.0 out of 10

I like it the more I listen to it.
August 20, 2008 at 1:11 a.m.
9.0 out of 10

They never fail to impress me!
August 20, 2008 at 2:46 a.m.

return of the cookie monster, lol.

i will refer to it as nothing else from now on.

this track is decent, but it's no "wolf like me." i also hear that qtip similarity. it earns bonus points for that.
August 20, 2008 at 9:56 a.m.

In a Golden Age, "black" radio would play this song and there would be no President "black" or "white".
August 20, 2008 at 12:17 p.m.
7.0 out of 10

I miss the big emotional moves. The big voice, the big guitars, the big drumming (e.g. "Wolf Like Me" or the whole Young Liars EP ). This seems a little too staid. But given TVOTR's eclecticism, I doubt I'll be left wanting on the album...

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