Desperate Youth, Blood Thirsty BabesTV on the Radio · 2004

pitchfork

9.2

“An expanded reissue calls back to the tumultuous era that produced the New York band’s landmark 2004 debut, which posed desperate pleasure as a way of making meaning in a hostile world.”

rollingstone

7.0

“Brooklyn’s TV on the Radio are indebted to everything from late-Eighties indie rock to classic soul music — on last year’s stunning Young Liars EP they did a doo-wop cover of a Pixies song. The band’s debut full-length, Desperate Youth, Blood Thirsty Babes, is an immaculate album about disappointment in all its forms: romantic, civic, […]”