TV on the Radio’s latest effort, “Dear Science,” is an exciting adventure back into the indie-pop and experimental rock world the group explored with its previous album, 2006’s “Return to Cookie Mountain.”

The key to “Dear Science” is the New York City-based band’s approach to its music. TV on the Radio’s open embrace of the unusual and experimental makes each track on the album a complete surprise.  It’s almost necessary to listen to every track on “Dear Science” a second time in order to comprehend the record as a whole.  

A great deal of “Dear Science’s” success is because of the wide range of vocal style from TV on the Radio front man Tunde Adebimpe. Adebimpe’s voice is sweet and calming at times, then eerie and sporadic at others.  Check out his somber vibe on tracks such as “Family Tree” and “Stork and Owl,” and a completely different version of himself on the cuts “Red Dress” and “Dancing Choose.”