So committed was TV on the Radio to unveiling material from its upcoming fifth album, the band skipped what might be its best-loved song, “Staring at the Sun,” Saturday at Life Is Beautiful. And the Brooklyn indie-rockers’ 50-minute set was glorious nonetheless.

Performing as a six-piece—with longtime drummer Jaleel Bunton now on bass, Japhet Landis on drums and Aaron Johnson on trombone—TVOTR packed its fourth Las Vegas appearance with music from scheduled November 18 release Seeds. Six songs to be exact, with just four (“Young Liars,” “Golden Age,” “Dancing Choose” and “Wolf Like Me”) from previous records.

The new music ranged from perky (poppy first single “Happy Idiot”) to sublimely synthed-out (“Careful You,” which found five band members playing keyboards at one point). There were moments of epic glory (finale “Trouble,” which closed with frontman Tunde Adebimpe repeating “Everything’s gonna be okay), and one memorably forceful number, “Winter,” that the singer said had never been heard by a crowd before.

That unfamiliar onslaught was met with surprising enthusiasm by the festival crowd, even if it saved its most vigorous reaction for 2006 favorite “Wolf Like Me,” the lone cut from beloved album Return to Cookie Mountain. The Ambassador Stage assemblage also stuck around despite imperfect sound. Adebimpe’s vocals, in particular, were tough to make out early in the set, though the ominous, reverberating guitar work of David Sitek and Kyp Malone mostly quelled anxieties about any of that.