TV on the Radio working on new album, leave Interscope

TV on the Radio are working on new material to be released on lead member Dave Sitek’s formative label Federal Prism.

TVOTR, who are set to headline ATP shortly, also confirm they will be leaving Interscope, whose served as their home label since 2006′s Return to Cookie Mountain. About the departure, frontman Tunde Adebimpe told SPIN, “Ehhhh…we parted ways with them. To the best of my knowledge, they can ask about another record, but I don’t think we’re gonna do that. Um, yeah they did what they did. That’s as diplomatic as I can put that.”

Adebimpe said the band hasn’t yet found a replacement for bassist Gerard Smith, who died in April 2011 mere days after the release of their last album Nine Types of Light. Instead the band is currently just focusing on writing material and all appears to be running smoothly, as Adebimpe admits: “I feel like these newer songs came so quickly because we’ve worked together so long. There’s actually no more room for too much messing around, or for any kind of negativity. Maybe that’s being older, where you’re like, ‘Wait a minute. We all love each other very much. Let’s try to do something fun that we’d listen to.’”

The band make no estimations as to when a new album will be forthcoming, but was more insistent upon “smaller things we can put out regularly until an album seems possible.”

[via Pitchfork]