10. DEAR SCIENCE
TV on the Radio

Brian Eno co-produced Coldplay's album, but you might guess he'd worked with TVOTR instead. Their third album recalls Talking Heads' Eno-produced Remain in Light, and its impressionist lyrics hint at life during wartime. Singer Tunde Adebimpe decries ''the lazy way they turned your head/Into a rest stop for the dead,'' but by ''Golden Age,'' fatal complacencies have given way to ''the sun spittin' happiness into the hereafter.'' It's geek-rock heaven.

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