TV On The Radio was one of many first bands we tried to coax into taking part in in our workplace again within the earliest days of the Tiny Desk, but it surely by no means occurred. Roughly 15 years later, the group lastly arrived to play a wide ranging and career-spanning set.
“Thanks for having us,”‘ frontman Tunde Adebimpe informed the gang after opening with a blazing model of “Wolf Like Me,” from 2006’s Return to Cookie Mountain. “I do not know what occurred 15 years in the past. I feel somebody missed a telephone name or an e-mail ‘trigger we wished to do it!” “We have been sitting round speaking amongst ourselves saying, ‘I do not know why they do not need us,’ ” Kyp Malone added.
TV On The Radio is at the moment celebrating the twentieth anniversary of Determined Youth, Bloodthirsty Babes, and launched a deluxe model of the album earlier this month. However they caught to each older and newer releases for the Tiny Desk, together with a barely extra subdued model of “Might You,” backed by Yusuke Yamamoto on vibraphone, from 2014’s Seeds. In addition they carried out “Satellite tv for pc,” from the band’s 2003 EP Younger Liars, earlier than closing with a hovering, lighters-up tackle the title observe.
SET LIST
- “Wolf Like Me”
- “Might You”
- “Satellite tv for pc”
- “Younger Liars”
MUSICIANS
- Jaleel Bunton: electrical guitar, acoustic guitar, background vocals
- Kyp Malone: electrical guitar, keyboard, background vocals
- Japhet Landis: drums
- Tunde Adebimpe: vocals
- Yusuke Yamamoto: keys, bass keys, vibraphone
TINY DESK TEAM
- Producer: Robin Hilton
- Director/Editor: Maia Stern
- Audio Technical Director: Josh Newell
- Host/Sequence Producer: Bobby Carter
- Videographers: Maia Stern, Joshua Bryant, Kara Body, Wendy Li
- Audio Engineer: Carleigh Unusual
- Manufacturing Assistant: Ashley Pointer
- Photographer: Michael Zamora
- Tiny Desk Copy Editor: Hazel Cills
- Government Producer: Suraya Mohamed
- Sequence Creators: Bob Boilen, Stephen Thompson
- VP, Visuals and Music: Keith Jenkins
