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album: Return to Cookie Mountain
artist: TV on the Radio
label: Interscope Records / 2006
score: 88
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by Tim Mathiesen
February 2007
I don't think I have ever enjoyed an album so much where the opening track was the worst song on the record. The opening song, "I Was A Lover" is scattered and uncreative, terribly boring and repetitive. Not that repetition is a bad thing, since the entire record is built on repetition, but the repetition on "I Was A Lover" is obnoxious.
That said, the rest of the album is near perfection. The purpose of the album is to build a rock album on a hip-hop platform. Repetition is the key, but the trick is to repeat the right moments. Produced by band member and occasional songwriter, David Andrew Sitek, Return to Cookie Mountain is not necessarily a step up from their brilliant debut album, Desperate Youth, Blood Thirsty Babes, but a step forward in maturity. Cookie Mountain is a tighter package, but without losing the exceptional creativity that made their previous album so important.
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