A rare coup for TV on the Radio

When it didn't turn up on the top 10 of Paste and Amazon, it wasn't looking good for former Pittsburghers Tunde Adebimpe and Kyp Malone, who front the innovative Brooklyn band.

But now Rolling Stone and Spin have weighed in, and in a rare coup TV on the Radio is on top of both lists. Rolling Stone wrote, "These Brooklynites greeted the historical moment with awe - and responded with art-rock party music. Call it the audacity of hope."

Spin said, " ‘Dear Science' is a document of the absurd, oft-contradictory realities that have governed American lives over the past 12 years, during which waxing anxiety was offset by irrational optimism."

Now, the Post-Gazette top 10 doesn't come out till Jan. 1, but right now that album is not No. 1.

THE ROLLING STONE TOP 10 ALBUMS

1 | TV on the Radio: Dear Science

2 | Bob Dylan: Tell Tale Signs - The Bootleg

Series Vol. 8

3 | Lil Wayne: Tha Carter III

4 | My Morning Jacket: Evil Urges

5 | John Mellencamp: Life, Death, Love

and Freedom

6 | Santogold: Santogold

7 | Coldplay: Viva la Vida or

Death and All His Friends

8 | Beck: Modern Guilt

9 | Metallica: Death Magnetic

10 | Vampire Weekend: Vampire Weekend

THE SPIN TOP 10

1 TV on the Radio: Dear Science

2. Lil Wayne: Tha Carter III

3. Portishead: Third

4. F-----d Up: The Chemistry of Common Life

5. Fleet Foxes: s/t

6. Santogold: s/t

7. Deerhunter: Microcastle

8. Hot Chip: Made in the Dark

9. Coldplay: Viva la Vida

10. MGMT: Oracular Spectacular

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