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TV On The Radio's Kyp Malone, multi-instrumentalist and bearer of the greatest Afro in rock since At The Drive-In, speaks exclusively to Xfm Online about the band's new record 'Desperate Youth, Bloodthirsty Babes' and about why the world will never need another Prince.
With its origins in Baltimore USA, TV On The Radio began with the EP 'Young Liars' recorded in 2003 by singer Tunde Adebimpe and songwriter and producer David Sitek. Before long the band expanded to a five piece and began work on their first album.
"Around the time of the EP," Malone begins "Dave and Tunde sent me some mixes of the stuff they were doing and finally asked me to play with them in the band. I thought the songs were really new and exciting so I said absolutely yes."
"But the two records sound so different now because Dave is determined never to make the same record twice. We'll never change for the sake of it, but we have to keep evolving.
"There's always influences, but they're on the perimeter," Malone continues. "I just don't see the point in making an album that sounds like a band I love. Why does the world need another Pavement? Or another Prince?
"I hope I'm always learning with my music. When the time comes that I'm not, there's something desperately wrong."
The band play John Kennedy's X-posure Live tonight (June 2) before making their UK festival debut this weekend (5) at Download. They'll be joined at X-posure Live by Mint Chicks and Entrance at the Barfly, Camden and tickets are priced £7.50 adv.
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