Christgau snubbed "Desperate Youths" for having inchoate, juvenile lyrics about love. (I personally don't think that's a justifiable reason to overlook the album, but whatever.) Whatever your opinion, TV on the Radio hasn't really had a complex love song till this one, but they've certainly made up for it.
"Freeze your golden hour" is a brilliant lyric--as the "Golden Hour" refers to both the first and last hour of sunlight in the day, and the hour in which life can be preserved after catastrophic injury. Damn good metaphor for love!
Christgau snubbed "Desperate Youths" for having inchoate, juvenile lyrics about love. (I personally don't think that's a justifiable reason to overlook the album, but whatever.) Whatever your opinion, TV on the Radio hasn't really had a complex love song till this one, but they've certainly made up for it.
"Freeze your golden hour" is a brilliant lyric--as the "Golden Hour" refers to both the first and last hour of sunlight in the day, and the hour in which life can be preserved after catastrophic injury. Damn good metaphor for love!