Tag: Dave Sitek

Review: Dave Sitek from TV on the Radio Goes Pop as Maximum Balloon

TVOTR's Dave Sitek is a Maximum Balloon amongst maximal balloons.

Ha ha ha, clever headline, yes! If only I’d have thought of that when I wrote the review for The A.V. Club. At least 10 commenters could’ve taken me to task for egregious punning on the name of TV on the Radio’s David Andrew Sitek’s new solo project Maximum Balloon (awkward mouthful alert!). Instead they talked about dude’s breath. Sigh. You should read about it anyway though, because I say things like this:

“Sitek’s solo material pushes that familiar TVOTR sound further, but ditches those strange blues almost entirely in favor of shocking pinks — radio-ready pop songs featuring a handful of guest vocalists.”

But the comments are waaaay more interesting. Dig in!

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‘Fat Rhymes Every Time, B*tch, Roseanne Bars’

There’s just too much that’s too good going on today. I think I’ve finally joined the Wale rapwagon. The killer beat by TV On The Radio’s Dave Sitek helps — as does K’naan breezy, Weezy verse — but nothing outshines the  kill line quoted in the above header. Emcees worldwide are no doubt lamenting not having thought of that one first. Hell, I coulda had a rap career with that line.