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 Dear Science,Sales Rank:47List Price: $13.98 Lowest New Price: $9.48 Lowest Used Price: $11.14 Average Customer Rating: 4.0 out of 5 Total Reviews: 44 Customer Reviews:Rating: 5 Well-deserved "best-of" status I'm seeing Dear Science on a lot of "best of 2008" lists. This status is well-deserved. Like the best of creative musicians, this talented group has made music that is both challenging and listenable, retaining key elements of their complex sound from an earlier, break-out cd, Return To Cookie Mountain, while evolving the mix of instruments and sounds in pleasing ways. The lyrics have a contemporary feel and strike a note of hope amidst chaos, certainly resonant with the tenor of these times. Rating: 4 Very experimental, flashy in its brilliance The CD swerves all over the music landscape from the Echo & Bunnymen sounding 'Halfway Home', to the early Bowie sounds of 'Crying'and 'Stork & Owl' to the awful 'Dancing Choose' (Chili Peppers?)and back around to White stripy 'Golden Age' the last three Adebimpe compositions are some of my favorites, especially 'DLZ' which is excellent. TV on the Radio comes off as very much a musical collective more than a band that is exploring or building on a sound. While that can be frustrating it is also very challenging and some of the notes thrown skyward by Adebimpe & Co. turn into gems. Rating: 1 Sounds like Lenny Kravitz knows pointer sisters and bubble gum Nothing new, nothing less, nothing more. The best band for 2008? Oppssss Rolling Stone Magazine says this but the critics of this magazine are lovers of Jonas Brothers (great album of rock (hahaha): rolling stone magazine dixit). But this band represent a mix-band for old rockers and a excellent band for young rockers. Rating: 4 Much acclaimed album doesn't quite resonate at that level for me The verdict is now in, and it is quite clear that TV On the Radio's "Dear Science" is regarded as one of the best albums of the year. It shows up on list after list, in publication after publication. I am quite respectful of the general sentiment, yet I don't quite seem to totally get it. I really liked the band's previous album, 2006's "Return to Cookie Mountain", though. "Dear Science" (11 tracks; 50 min.) starts off with my favorite track of the album, "Halfway Home", a high-charging urgent song that captures me immediately. But then several tunes follow that don't grab me until track 5 "Golden Age". The second half of the album is much better in my opinion, with standouts like "Red Dress" and "Love Dog". In all, this is not a bad listen, quite the contrary, but for me it doesn't resonate to be one of the best albums of the year, but that's just me. Music is a deeply personal and subjective experience. TV on the Radio gets a lot of airplay on WOXY (BAM! The Future of Rick and Roll!), the internet-only station that brings the best indie-rock in the country bar none. This album was No.2 on the best of 2008 (My Morning Jacket's "Evil Urges" was No. 1). I caught TV on the Radio at the Monolith festival in September at the Red Rocks in Colorado, and they brought many of the songs from this album, which was to be released about a week after I saw them there. They were the closer of the 2 day festival, and maybe it was just me being tired or maybe it was the weather (rainy and chilly) or because I wasn't familiar yet with the songs, but I couldn't get into it at all. Or maybe it was just me liking other music better. That said, this is a good album, but not one of my top albums of the year. Rating: 3 Dear Science review This was my first listen to an album of TVOTR's, after hearing about them for so long, I finally got around to it. I thought the album was decent, my favorite tracks being "Crying", "Dancing Choose", and "Golden Age", but all the songs seemed extremely overproduced and drowned. |