Privilege

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Total Tracks: 15   Total Length: 46:40

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Get Well Soon, Dan Treacy!

By J. Edward Keyes , Editor-in-Chief

Incredibly sad news in the UK today: Television Personalities frontman Dan Treacy is in a coma after surgery to remove a blood clot in his brain. Treacy is an underground icon -- MGMT honored him with "Song For Dan Treacy" on last year's TVP-inspired Congratulations and his shambling, part-sarcastic/part-heartbroken approach to pop has been cited as an influence by countless contemporary indie bands. Three years ago, Douglas Wolk wrote this excellent summarymore »

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Given that the crisp Privilege is the Television Personalities’ first studio LP in four years, Dan Treacy has every right to be in a less-than-sunny mood — songs like “All My Dreams Are Dead,” “This Time There’s No Happy Ending” and “Sad Mona Lisa” are to be expected when a fertile songwriting talent finds himself without means of recording and releasing new material. The end result is one of the group’s most personal and dark records, although the wonderful “Salvador Dali’s Art Party” — which runs down all of the luminaries on the guest list — is a return to the psychedelic name-dropping of the group’s formative years. – Jason Ankeny