TV On The Radio “Return to Cookie Mountain” LP

TVOTR excels at making slowly-evolving tunes with vaguely anthemic choruses and lots of loud-soft dynamics, but mix a genuine and actual songwriting ability with their knack for finding sounds that appear to be “new.” This record is crisper-sounding and incorporates more dance-based elements, but it’s essentially a pop album. TVOTR is giving us what we really need in our popular music: more weirdness and more truth.