This week’s New Music Report focuses on TV on the Radio’s third album Dear Science, the follow-up to their excellent 2006 album Return to Cookie Mountain. Click above to see if RollingStone.com’s Kyle Anderson thinks the scaled-back production and sexier, funkier approach is a step in the right direction for the Brooklyn art rockers.

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