Exhausted from touring, TV On the Radio have announced they going on hiatus for a year. The band will use the time to recuperate, visit family, and release at least one solo album.
"The funny thing about this band is that I feel like everyone's amazed that we're on tour, and that we're even a band," singer Tunde Adebimpe told MTV News. "If you'd asked all four of us six years ago if we'd want to be in a band, unanimously, it would be like, 'Well maybe for three weeks, yeah.' It's great we've been able to do it for so long, but everyone's kind of got other projects they want to tend to."
"The going theory is to take about a year off, because you have to go and live a life and change things up."
TV On the Radio have been touring for almost a year in support of Dear Science, their third album. These days, Adebimpe said, the tour bus feels rather small. "You can say something to someone on the bus, and then after you've let it out, you realise you've got six hours sitting across from that person. 'Remember when I called you a dick a while ago? That was just, uh, caffeine and sleep deprivation talking, and I really didn't mean it, and I hope you don't take it to heart, even though I can tell that you are because you're not talking to me.' It's basic cabin fever."
Among the projects band members have planned for the coming year are singer and guitarist Kyp Malone's Rain Machine solo album, and Dave Sitek's production work for Brooklyn band Pink Noise.