The black Radiohead?

TV on the Radio is this generation’s Radiohead. Yeah, that’s right. You heard me. I’ll say it again so it will have a chance to rest upon your mortal ears and soak into your soul to be processed, and then thrown back at me like Linda Blair throws pea soup. You may argue TVOTR are from the U.S. and therefore not quite as cool, classy, and intelligent as their rotten-toothed counterparts. To that I say ladies and gentlemen, TVOTR are cooler because they are black. Yeah, that’s right. You heard me. You better get used to this sorta thing if you’re gonna read these rants again. Oh, and not only are they black, they look borderline homeless. Maybe they were a few homeless friends, singing important soul songs on some dirty street of some major city when a chubby, computer nerd with tattoos walks by and asks them if they want to start what will be the defining band of the early 2000s.
Radiohead is the type of band that is in an undefined category of rock; a place where sounds seem to be pulled out of thin air and contorted until they become part a melody. They are expanding the balloon of music around them to the busting point, and their songs will be covered by kids starting generation defining bands for decades to come. TVOTR are doing the same as we speak. True, they have yet to write a concept album (see OK Computer), or an electronic album (see Kid A), but they are throwing music in all new directions and placing the bar almost too high to even do pull-ups on. They are experiment without sacrificing melody, they use electronics without selling their souls. They will be around as long as indie rock is.