TV on the Radio @ ABC, 16 Nov

If you could have levelled one accusation at TV on the Radio following their 2006 breakthrough record Return to Cookie Mountain it might have been a certain high-brow inaccessibility: every critic's favourite new band (us included), but dark diagnoses of a paranoia-addled society set to avant-garde jazz-rock does not a pop classic make. But will the five Skinny-rated follow-up Dear Science make them seem any less reactionary? Well, the angst inherent in Tunde Adebimpe’s unmistakable voice has evolved into aching euphoria, the squalling horns of the apocalypse have been replaced by muscular funk and handclaps, and the overall sense is of a band happy with their lot. So what better time to see these Brooklyn trailblazers than when they hit Glasgow this month? They may be winning new fans by the thousand, but they’re still the same artful, weird iconoclasts at heart (see the Golden Age video on YouTube for proof). [Nick Mitchell]