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I just keep playing that like I'm a fucking teenage girl listening to a new Duran Duran song over and over again. They're hitting my reflex, you know what I mean, and it's one of those songs that I've got to stop myself from getting in peoples' faces about: "He's like a werewolf, right, you see what he's saying!?" Ugh, that's how good that is.
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While in the UK the impact of Radiohead has largely been confined to a stream of fake plastic rock ballads, in the US, bands like Brooklyn's TV On The Radio have risen to challenge of Kid A's prog ambition, even waggishly calling their debut OK Calculator.
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At first it seems like this silent-movie-style clip is just another boring artsy video from an artsy band. But then the musicians turn into wolves, and the hot chick becomes a vamipire - and suddenly it gets all "funk of 40,000 years" in the there.
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In a world without Timberlake, this would be untouchable. Fuzzed-out guitars and a driving rhythm section create the perfect backdrop for the most peculiar of anthems -- one that's filled with lust, anxiety and dread.
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Timeless, fist-pumping rock about how life is a glorious all-fours schlep into a portal of oblivion.
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It doesn't hurt that this fervent pitch is delivered atop one of the year's most immediate and indestructible punk-bred productions.
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This has Ian Curtis rolling around in his grave: dark Brit-pop with front man Tunde Adebimpe wailing, "My heart's aflame / My body's strained / But God, I like it."
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Some choice kooky intertitles (hey kid: name your band "Biology Prevails!"), a dated coloration process, those strange wolves, and a little smoke and scratchiness keep it on course, reminding us that buried beneath all the ferocious layers, TV on the Radio are a band with a sense of humor.
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When the bottom falls out midway through and we are left to float into the nothingness, Tunde Adebimpe's howls serve as a rallying cry from the beautiful apocalypse and an acceptance that mortal man can (on a whim) transform into carnal beast.
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"Wolf Like Me" is among the most straightforward tracks, but this is an album you should hear in its entirety.
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It's best appreciated when funneled directly into its listener's ear canal without the distraction of ambient noise -- which kills it not because it's quiet like folk music, but because it's intricately constructed and dense like prog.
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On this bluesy barnburner that drips with menace, Tunde Adebimpe sings the album's mission statement: "Gonna teach you tricks that will blow your mind."
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Indie-rock's lupine fetishism continues to flourish with the help of the revered Brooklyn outfit's emotive new anthem.
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Really, the Brooklyn-based band could've picked anything as a lead-off single, but 'Wolf Like Me' sounds like a dance-floor favourite already. This is a rare beast indeed - it isn't soul train, but it sounds like a non-metaphorical equivalent.
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'Wolf Like Me', the first single to be lifted from the latest album, might just be the song that sends TVOTR out of the domain of the backpack-wearing blogger geek and into the unforgiving mainstream.
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The lust-fuelled werewolf-rock stomp of 'Wolf Like Me' (4AD) ought to win them a few new admirers anyway: effortlessly forward-looking and yet somehow weirdly familiar, it’s another sci-fi sure shot from one of the most intriguing bands of the 21st Century so far.
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Managing to be big and excitable and yet twitchy and withdrawn all at the same time, "Wolf Like Me" bristles with some unstated menace.
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