I know what you read that as and no, this is not a Craig Wedren Remixes TV On The Radio post. The Dead Science are a Seattle-based avant rock trio, set to put out an LP based strictly on obscure comic book and Wu-Tang Clan references, which is a thing avant rock trios do. They’ll probably remind you more of Xiu Xiu than Wu-Tang Forever, but the Dead Science are dead serious about this Wu-Tang thing. “Make Mine Marvel,” a track from their forthcoming Villanaire LP, is full of straight up rips of verses from Forever’s “Triumph.” The version we’re focusing on, though, is the Craig Dub Plate Mix, so named for the helping hand of Shudder master Craig Wedren, spiking the beats and rearranging things to give ‘em a full on eerie intonation. Singer Sam Mickens is definitely from the Jamie Stewart school of singing, but when you hear him flip up into head voice while things get noisy and knotty behind him, it’s not hard to see why someone like Mr. Wedren would be drawn to it.

Guillemots are all about branding. Much like the red-hued video for “Get Over It,” there’s lots of red in the video for “Kriss Kross” (the album’s called Red, bingo). The dark-to-light kriss-krossing track came packing a typewriter riff and general prime-time-criminal-drama vibe as a free download a ways back. In its video form, it comes packing super saturated effects, oversized shades, and Fyfe looking like a bit like Jamie Lidell.

Your Tuesday afternoon just got 100% more great. “Golden Age” is the first listen from TV On The Radio’s forthcoming return from Cookie Mountain, titled Dear Science, (comma included, thinking its epistolary). It will probably make you dance. Don’t be fooled by the dry tones on the “Don’t Stop ‘Til You Get Enough” bass groovy intro, things do open up — not quite in the same way they perfected last time out, it’s a slightly modified mix coming from Sitek: horns and strings, synths and handclaps, polyrhythm in the pulse, vocals melting all over the horizon. Tunde (Oops, it’s Kyp) is pitching “a golden age, coming around.” (I definitely hear Celebration’s Katrina Ford in there, too.) Pretty triumphant, guys. Have a listen at tvontheradio.com. Yes, that is Kyp shirtless and afroless.

Dear Science, is, out, 9/23, via, Interscope. Here’s your cover:

The Followills tell NME: “It’s difficult when you make a new record and you wanna play all the new songs live, but with technology these days, there’ll be someone out there with a recorder and it kinda spoils it for us. You don’t wanna play too many new songs because otherwise they’ll be on YouTube or something, so we have to pick and choose. If it was up to us we’d play all the new songs because they’re so fun to play.” So you might wanna stop. Or, keep on doing it, depending on which side of this scrum you are.

Doherty’s boys are not welcome at Westbury’s Moonfest after British intelligence officials offered this detailed analysis of the band’s effect on audiences: “They speed up and then slow down the music and create a whirlpool effect in the crowd. They [the crowd] all get geed up and then they start fighting” (via Guardian). Analysis is the best. (Thanks to our British readers for all the tips. Your reward: Pete and Lee Mavers make a video. Watch out for geed up whirlpools though.)