Brooklyn four-piece TV on the Radio released their debut full-length, Desperate Youth, Blood Thirsty Babes , more than 20 years ago—which can be hard to believe because it still feels so revelatory. The album arrived three years after 9/11, and its startling genre fusions and challenging emotional depth explored the confluence and conflict between desire and fear. The music captured the tension and uncertainty of a time when a wannabe warlord president controlled the White House, violence escalated abroad (specifically in the Middle East and Afghanistan) and young people worried about their futures. Given the rhyming nature of history, Desperate Youth resonates with people who loved it in 2004 as well as with the generation who’ve come of age since Charlottesville.

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