TV on the Radio are on break
Brooklyn indie-rockers (and one of my faves) TV on the Radio have announced that they’re taking a one-year break, according to Pitchfork (via MTV).
Lead singer Tunde Adebimpe spoke about the upcoming break after they played at the Outside Lands Festival in San Francisco, CA over the weekend. “This was the last show for us, for a while,” he said. “We’ve decided to take, well, the going theory is to take about a year off, because you have to go and live a life and change things up.”
Which includes getting away from the other members of the band and life on the road. “We’ve been on tour for almost a year now, and towards the end of the year, you do end up getting things out during the show, subliminally, that you can’t get out with someone on a bus,” Adebimpe said. “Because you can say something to someone on the bus, and then after you’ve let it out, you realize you’ve got six hours sitting across from that person. Like, ‘Remember when I called you a dick a while ago? That was just, uh, caffeine and all sorts of sleep depravation talking, and I really didn’t mean it, and I hope you don’t take it to heart, even though I can tell that you are because you’re not talking to me.’ It’s basic cabin fever.”
But just because the band is on hiatus doesn’t mean they’re not working on music. Singer/guitarist Kyp Malone is releasing a solo disc and going on tour under the name Rain Machine. Dave Sitek, the multi-instrumentalist/producer of the group, is working on a new album with the band Pink Noise and Tunde just appeared on a new Massive Attack song. So don’t you worry about TV on the Radio. They’ll be back before you know it.
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