Editorial Reviews
Desperate Youth, Blood Thirsty Babes [Enhanced]
Music Review:
Music Review
Serenade / Te Deum / Dona Nobis Pacem
Sargent Conducts English Music
Shanghai (Long) [Limited Edition]
Millennium: Gal Costa [Import]
Pelham Goddard Christmas Classics
Paganini: Complete String Quartets
Pat Chilla Presents H-Bomb, Vol. 2: Big Game Theory [Explicit Lyrics]
Amazon.com
TVOTR is a highly original group from Brooklyn, NY characterized by vocals that range from crazily high-pitched to group chanting and a pop-based sound that’s rampantly experimental but always melodic. Unlike their school-of-’78-in-’04 peers such as the Rapture and Interpol, TVOTR’s music is as rooted in blues, free jazz and gospel as it is the post-punk canon or contemporary electronic music. This makes Desperate Youth, Blood Thirsty Babes far more interesting, naturally; the purely vocal "Ambulance" is novel and exciting as anything by Björk, Spongehead Experience or Pere Ubu. With lyrics that impressively, and un-preachingly, tackle issues of race and war, this finalist for 2004’s Shortlist Competition easily ranks among the best albums of that year. --Mike McGonigal
VICE
"Peter Gabriel backed by Slowdive for an experimental doo-wop album."
Album Description
Pop, rock, and art songs about discordant living, misrepresentation, life, afterlife, love, and love "after hours". Scandalous. Undeniably catchy songs with incredible production, arrangements, champion crooning, and a host of extras. "They sound like Pere Ubu meets Belfegore meets The Tar Babies meets a way less chilly Notwist with a smidge of Metric thrown in"--Jane.