TV on the Radio frontman Tunde Adebimpe has signed to Sub Pop Records and released a new song, “Magnetic.”
“Magnetic” is the lead single off Adebimpe’s forthcoming debut album, which will be released in 2025. With a quick tempo and buzzing synths, “Magnetic” is a rousing return from the musician, actor, and filmmaker. “I was thinking about my time in space/ I was thinking about the human race/ In the age of tenderness and rage,” Adebimpe sings to open both the first and second verses, later howling over a motorik beat and asking, “What they gonna do with a lightning rider?”
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It also arrives with an energetic music video directed by Adebimpe himself. Throughout, he and a woman dance freely in black and white, with only a microphone and a PA system on the set. Watch the “Magnetic” video below.
Though it’s his debut single for Sub Pop, Adebimpe has been busy building out his solo career outside of TV on the Radio. He’s dusted off his acting resume with new appearances in Twisters and Disney+’s Star Wars: Skeleton Crew. Music-wise, he contributed a cover of Sleater-Kinney’s “The Drama You’ve Been Craving” in 2022 for the 25th anniversary tribute LP Dig Me In: A Dig Me Out Covers Album. He also released the charity singles “ReelFeel” and “People” in 2020.
Meanwhile, Adebimpe and his band TV on the Radio have just reformed after five years on hiatus. The band performed their first gig since 2019 on September 4th at a surprise Vans event in their native New York City, and they’ll be releasing a new reissue of their debut album Desperate Youth, Blood Thirsty Babes on November 15th.
Coinciding with the reissue, TV on the Radio will play brief residencies in New York, Los Angeles, and London in November and December. See the tour dates here, and get tickets here.
