Thursday, October 05, 2006

Pitchfork Interviews TVOTR's David Sitek

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I honestly haven't figured out how David Sitek keeps up that frenetic pace on "Wolf Like Me." Like just about everything else on Return to Cookie Mountain it is mind-boggling and beautiful.

Do you ever find that band that says everything you want a band to say? They represent things that you believe in and conduct themselves the way you wish all artists would. TV On The Radio keeps giving me what I need, they talk the talk, and in a live setting, they walk they walk. I would say that I wish all bands were like this, but then it wouldn't be so special, now, would it?

God, I love the way these guys roll:

"We don't want to be hidden behind some shroud of secrecy. I don't think that TV on the Radio is some dark mysterious band that no one can know about. We write music because it's an immediate form of communication. We're able to put on record what's happening in our times, and we want that message to be heard by the most amount of people.

"I make music to bring the dead to life for a couple minutes and then let it go. But when it gets out into the world, you have a very slim opportunity... You know how you read a magazine, and it's like all the music magazines have turned into Marie Claire? It's like '66 Hot New Bands With Hot New Looks,' you know? It's new bands, new bands, new bands, new bands. They end up being marketed like laundry detergent. And we knew that this was going to happen, so we were like, 'How do we reach the most people before the next TV on the Radio comes out?' [Laughs]

"Ultimately, we weren't just writing to an indie rock audience. We're not really writing to any genre. We're writing to humanity." [Pitchfork]

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