While not a traditional “song”, works like Clair de Lune helped set the stage for so many lyricists and vocalists. Its yearning is unmatched, an overall great example of emotive communication through melody and progression. I was speaking to a friend yesterday about how memories are our brains rebuilding what we thought we experienced, like a movie we make for ourselves. Imperfect. This is the perfect soundtrack for that.

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This is one of those songs that grows in your imagination years after hearing it for the first time. It’s unorthodox in some ways, and regardless of the parallels you could make between TV On The Radio and whatever bands that came before them, they exist in an important space of what we think of as “indie rock”. I don’t know if there’s a word for caring without caring, but that’s what I feel about Tunde’s writing. It’s just cool. This is probably their most well known tune, but they’re all very good.

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