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TV on the Radio’s Tunde Adebimpe: ‘I remember thinking I never want to do this again’
TV on the Radio’s frontman hit rock bottom at the height of the band’s powers and stopped performing music for good. But with his acting career taking off and a genre-jumping new solo album, one of rock’s great polymaths is back
The son of middle-class Nigerians who moved between St Louis, Pittsburgh and Lagos during his childhood, Adebimpe is able to oscillate between hyperbolic indie frontman, actor and visual art practitioner (he once worked as an animator on MTV’s Celebrity Deathmatch). On screen, he has proved incredibly versatile, able to handle the arthouse demands of being a lead in Sebastián Silva’s Nasty Baby and also deliver tender performances in Disney+ Star Wars spin-off Skeleton Crew and weather disaster sequel Twisters. Ate the Moon and Blue aren’t far off the industrial hammer blows of Nine Inch Nails; Pinstack has the swagger of glam; second single, Drop, is gentle pop underpinned with scuzzy beatboxing; while The Most combines pulsing stabs of synthesiser with a sample of dancehall classic Under Mi Sleng Teng.
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