Young Liars by TV on the Radio

Young Liars, the 2003 EP from New York's TV on the Radio, was the band's first major release, out on Touch and Go after OK Calculator, and it announced a sound all its own. Electronica, doo-wop, post-rock and avant-garde noise get folded into the same humid swirl, loops churning under voices that swoop and harmonize like a street-corner group lost in a machine shop.

"Staring at the Sun" was the single, a slow-burning thing that would later be remixed and reissued on their first full album, Desperate Youth, Blood Thirsty Babes. And stick around after the listed tracks: the EP closes with an unlisted fifth song, an a cappella take on the Pixies' "Mr. Grieves" from Doolittle.

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