Tenderness at Maximum Volume

TV on the Radio spent most of their existence making music that felt like standing too close to a transformer—beautiful, electric, slightly dangerous. Will Do does something different. It’s one of the quietest things they ever recorded, Tunde Adebimpe’s voice stripped down to something almost private, a love song that doesn’t announce itself. It arrived ahead of Nine Types of Light and it was the track I kept returning to, not because it was the biggest or most technically impressive but because it felt earned rather than performed. Some bands can only whisper after they’ve been screaming for years. That’s the song.