TV on the Radio Return to Cookie Mountain released

Return to Cookie Mountain TV on the Radio

Released: July 6, 2006 Peak: 41 US, 90 UK, 50 AU Sales (in millions): 0.24 US Genre: post-punk revival

Tracks: Song Title [time] (date of single release, chart peaks) Click for codes to singles charts. I Was a Lover [4:21] Hours [3:55] Province [4:37] (5/8/06, --) Playhouse [5:11] Wolf Like Me [4:39] (2/13/06, 37 MR, 89 UK) A Method [4:25] Let the Devil In [4:27] Dirtywhirl [4:15] Blues from Down Here [5:17] Tonight [6:53] Wash the Day [8:08] Total Running Time: 56:10 The Players: Tunde Adebimpe (vocals, backing vocals, programming, sequencing) David Andrew Sitek (guitar, bass, synthesizer, horns, percussion, programming, sampling) Kyp Malone (vocals, backing vocals, guitar, bass, synthesizer, strings) Jaleel Bunton (drums, percussion, guitar, bass, synthesizer, programming, strings) Gerard Smith (bass, organ, piano, sampling, programming)

Rating: 4.223 out of 5.00 (average of 34 ratings) Awards: (Click on award to learn more).

About the Album: The rock band TV on the Radio formed in Brooklyn, New York in 2001. Return to Cookie Mountain was their second album after their debut Desperate Youth, Blood Thirsty Babes in 2004. The first single from the album was Wolf Like Me, which barely dented the UK charts and the lower reaches of the Billboard alternative rock chart. Follow-up single, Province, featured backing vocals from David Bowie, who had championed the band after their first album. The single failed to chart. The album was well received by critics. Spin magazine even named it album of the year. It also made year-end top-ten lists for Rolling Stone, Slant, Stylus, Pitchfor, and Metacritic. Blender magazine named it one of the top 100 greatest indie-rock albums ever. WK Notes: The songs “Snakes and Martyrs,” Hours,” and “Things You Can Do” were added as bonus tracks on the U.S. release. The songs first appeared as B-sides on the single of “Wolf Like Me.”

Resources and Related Links: DMDB encyclopedia entry for TV on the Radio WK Wikipedia First posted 3/13/2022.