Tunde Adebimpe has told NME that he would “love” for TV On The Radio to record more music together, saying he is “sure that we will”.
The Brooklyn art rockers emerged from their hiatus in 2024, playing their first sustained run of shows together for six years and re-releasing their debut album ‘Desperate Youth, Blood Thirsty Babes’ for its 20th anniversary.
This summer, they are heading on the road for a string of UK and European dates – see the full list here – as well as a set of festival shows, including Glastonbury, Green Man and Primavera.
In a new interview with NME, frontman Adebimpe has reflected on the possibility of the band heading back into the studio for a follow-up to their last full-length release, 2014’s ‘Seeds’.
Describing the 2024 comeback shows as “ecstatic” and “some of the best shows we’ve ever played”, he said that after so much time apart, “I realised that what I missed was doing this thing with people I love very much. You get to whip up this thing that’s bigger than all of you and conjure up something out of nothing and share that with people.”
He continued: “I would love for us to record more, and I’m sure that we will. It’s been fun messing around at soundchecks and stuff. I’m psyched to be doing all this music. I’ve got a record coming out, which is amazing, meanwhile there’s a gameshow host in the White House and people in America are getting snapped off the streets for saying ‘Free Palestine’. It’s deeply fucking weird.”
The solo album he referenced is ‘Thee Black Boltz’, released last Friday (April 18) via Sub Pop. The record was produced by Adebimpe and Wilder Zoby and is a “nod to Adebimpe’s propensity to write and sing about the human condition – in all its forms, under all its stressors, both big and small”.
In addition to the upcoming UK/European dates and festivals, TVOTR will also be supporting LCD Soundsystem at five US shows in August, in Seattle, Oregon and Colorado. Find the full list of dates and ticket information here.
NME awarded ‘Seeds’ four stars in 2014, noting: “Adebimpe only acknowledges his band’s turbulent recent past towards the end, on found-sound collage ballad ‘Trouble’. Amid bells, glitch and industrial hiss he strains to find a bright side: “’Everything’s going to be OK,’ I keep telling myself/ ‘Don’t worry, be happy’”. This brave face infuses ‘Seeds’; grief and anger are channelled into a propulsive energy, driving the quartet’s synthetic pop explorations with added garage-rock urgency.”
