Watch TV On The Radio carry out ‘Staring At The Solar’ on ‘Fallon’

TV On The Radio carried out their basic debut single ‘Staring At The Solar’ on US TV final night time (November 21) – watch the video under.

The New York band delivered an brisk rendition of the 2004 music whereas showing because the musical company on yesterday’s version of NBC’s The Tonight Present Starring Jimmy Fallon.

It got here in assist of the brand new twentieth anniversary reissue of the group’s 2004 first album ‘Determined Youth, Blood Thirsty Babes’ – which boasts 5 bonus tracks, together with an unreleased music known as ‘Dry Drunk Emperor’.

After being launched by host Fallon, TV On The Radio handled the studio viewers and viewers at residence to a robust outing of ‘Staring At The Solar’. They have been illuminated by blazing orange lights that sparkled quickly all through – matching the depth of the stay efficiency.

One fan wrote within the feedback part: “Wonderful! I obtained chills watching this. In some way they made the unique music sound even higher.” One other particular person mentioned: “For the reason that first time I heard it thus far, ‘Staring At The Solar’ remains to be the identical emotion-soaked fever dream that will get me crying and singing on the identical time.”

Tune in right here:

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As Stereogum notes, final night time’s Fallon look seems to be to be the primary time that TV On The Radio had carried out on tv since they performed ‘Mercy’ on Letterman in 2013.

Subsequent week, TV On The Radio will play some reunion exhibits in New York earlier than taking to the stage in Los Angeles and London in December. They’ll additionally carry out at Primavera Sound in Barcelona subsequent summer time, and assist Khruangbin at their enormous out of doors gig at London’s Gunnersbury Park.

Again in September, the group performed their first stay live performance collectively in over 5 years. TV On The Radio had teased their comeback on social media over the summer time. Their fifth and most up-to-date studio album, ‘Seeds’, was launched in 2014.

Final month noticed frontman Tunde Adebimpe share his debut solo single, ‘Magnetic’. It’ll seem on his forthcoming first album – which is because of arrive sooner or later subsequent yr by way of Sub Pop.

A press launch concerning the new ‘Determined Youth…’ reissue mentioned the unique document was “stuffed with wealthy, bruising concepts about life, love and loss”.

It continued: “Lyrically however particularly sonically, ‘Determined Youth’ captured the dystopian hum of post-9/11 America (a warfare in Iraq, a proto-right-wing political regime, a surveillance state threatening private company at residence), placing a voice to the final unease younger folks felt on the time.”