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Desperate Youth, Blood Thirsty Babes

by Tv On The Radio

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Overall Rating: 3.1546 Desperate Youth, Blood Thirsty Babes is ranked overall as 3.1546 out of 4 stars
Avg. Critic Score: 3.0691 Desperate Youth, Blood Thirsty Babes has an avg. critic score of 3.0691 out of 4 stars

Desperate Youth, Blood Thirsty Babes Rank 3 Reviews

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ShakingThrough.net
Desperate Youth, Blood Thirsty Babes extends and refines both the lyrical smarts and programmatically adventurous nature of Young Liars. ...more
Delusions of Adequacy
Sitek manages to conjure a musical playground within which Adebimpe’s vocals can frolic. ...more
Dusted Magazine
While Desperate Youth, Blood Thirsty Babes could have become an exercise in studio-based formalistic noodling, Adebimpe and Malone’s vocals and lyrics give the songs structure and direction. ...more
The Onion (A.V. Club)
TV On The Radio's ace is Adebimpe, whose urgent vocal performance sounds slyly bluesy and in sync with his and Sitek's dense urban soundscapes. ...more
Tiny Mix Tapes
For anyone who found themselves begging for more than five songs, you will be happy with this new album; the distance traveled from Young Liars is not so drastic as to alienate anyone. ...more

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Splendid
To their considerable credit, TVoTR don't run out of innovation before they run out of songs, so even "Wear You Out"'s final minutes, during which a flute, a sax and various oscillating tones bang away at each other, are inventive and enticing. ...more
Neumu.net
While Desperate Youth, Blood Thirsty Babes is far from a perfect offering, this album provides a plethora of outstanding moments reminiscent of the musical exploration the band's heroes The Pixies exhibited on their debut longplayer, Surfer Rosa. ...more
Pitch Fork Media
The word I keep hearing for this band is "soulless." It's true that the Young Liars EP had a metallic sheen, a mechanical repetitiveness that both boosted and encased the silver-throated vocals of Tunde Adebimpe. The songs were full of distance ...more
Pitchfork
The Young Liars EP was as fully realized as all the critics suggested, yet now, TV on the Radio sound like a work in progress. Still, Desperate Youth, Blood Thirsty Babes shows more strengths than mistakes. ...more
Junkmedia
TV on the Radio relies more on the influence of eighties prog-pop than the typical Brooklyn grit, which is definitely refreshing. ...more
Village Voice (Consumer Guide)
All told, pretty dull--unless you're so desperate that you'll sing hosanna for every piece of intelligent-honest-original that comes down the circuit. ...more
Drowned In Sound
TV On The Radio is yet another group that I was a little late on in terms of jumping on the wagon. I'd read a great deal of press about their debut Young Liars EP, but didn't even hear it until after I'd heard this, their newest full length. The EP ...more
Rolling Stone
Brooklyn's TV on the Radio are indebted to everything from late-Eighties indie rock to classic soul music - on last year's stunningYoung LiarsEP they did a doo-wop cover of a Pixies song. The band's debut full-length,Desperate Youth, Blood ...more
PrefixMag
When I read the ample press generated by TV on the Radio's debut EP,Young Liars,and the Williamsburg-based band's reportedly stunning opening performances for the Fall last year, I'm puzzled by the frequent comparisons drawn between TVOTR's frontman ...more
Stylus Magazine
Like David Bowie’s Station to Station or Peter Gabriel’s So, TV on the Radio make music that demands to be listened to actively, as for the listener to absorb the lethal amounts of heartbreak, dignity, and mystery in the human voice. ...more
Village Voice
Much more realized than last year's Young Liars EP, it's also a bit more conventional. ...more
Almost Cool
There are some amazing songs on Desperate Youth, Blood Thirsty Babes, but overall it still feels like a transition[al] release of a group really trying to nail things. ...more
No Ripcord
Their initial EP documented a band that sounded ready to take on the world – but the follow up just shows that the journey may take longer than expected. ...more
Rolling Stone
It all hangs together, somehow, swaying unerringly from one idea to the next. ...more
Almost Cool
TV On The Radio is yet another group that I was a little late on in terms of jumping on the wagon. I'd read a great deal of press about their debut Young Liars EP, but didn't even hear it until after I'd heard this, their newest full length. The ...more

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