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Hear TV on the Radio’s Slow-Burning, Sarcastic ‘Final Fantasy’ From 2004
TV on the Radio will release a 20th anniversary edition of their 'Desperate Youths, Blood Thirsty Babes' album and are planning a tour.
The first outtake the group is releasing, “Final Fantasy” — recorded in 2004, a year after George W. Bush ordered the U.S. to invade Iraq with “shock and awe” bombing campaigns — uses the title of the video game series as a metaphor for the way some people are able to anesthetize themselves from tragedy on TV. Coinciding with the reissue, the band — Adebimpe, guitarist-vocalist Kyp Malone, and drummer Jaleel Bunton — will play its first concerts since 2019 with multi-night runs in New York, Los Angeles, and London beginning this fall. In a 2003 CMJ New Music Monthly cover story on TV on the Radio that coincided with the original release of Desperate Youths, Blood Thirsty Babes, Adebimpe reflected on how the band wrote songs about society in decay.
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