The Brooklyn-based group TV on the Radio mixes post-punk, electronic, and other atmoshperic elements in such a creative way that it only makes sense that its core duo, vocalist Tunde Adebimpe and multi-instrumentalist/producer David Andrew Sitek, are both visual artists as well as musicians.
Adebimpe is a graduate of NYU’s film school and specializes in stop-motion animation. He directed the video for the Yeah Yeah Yeahs’ single “Pin,” and Sitek produced the Yeah Yeah Yeahs’ Machine EP and their full-length Fever to Tell. The duo met when Sitek moved into the building where Adebimpe had a loft; each of them had been recording music on their own, but realized their sounds would work well together.
TV on the Radio capped a year of critical acclaim when their debut LP Desperate Youth, Blood Thirsty Babes was awarded the Shortlist Music Prize in November. The Shortlist Prize was founded in 2001 “to honor the most creative and adventurous albums of the year across all genres of music.”