Nine Types of Light


Nine Types of Light is the fourth studio album by American rock band TV on the Radio, released on April 11, 2011 through Interscope Records. It is the final TV on the Radio album to feature bassist Gerard Smith, who died of lung cancer nine days after it was released. The album's lead single "Will Do" was released on February 23, 2011. Its closing track, "Caffeinated Consciousness", was made available on the band's website as a free download on March 10, 2011. Nine Types of Light was very well received by critics and has a "Universal Acclaim" rating of 82 at review aggregating website Metacritic.

Film

The band created an accompanying film to go with the album, an hourlong visual companion that offers music videos for all of Nine Types of Light's tracks. Packaged with a deluxe version of the CD, the film also exists on YouTube in its entirety. Characterized by eclectic visual style and thematic content as well as TV on the Radio's diverse, unique sound, the film allows for a different interpretation and method of experiencing the album. Directed by singer Tunde Adebimpe, the film also features interviews with a variety of New Yorkers discussing topics including dreams, love, fame, and the future. A humorous epilogue, set to the song "You" and featuring the band members meeting for lunch ten years after a fictional breakup, concludes the film. Overall, the work can be seen as Afrofuturistic, particularly the video for "Will Do," which incorporates virtual-reality technology to tell a unique love story starring Adebimpe and Joy Bryant.

Track listing

  1. "Second Song" – 4:22
  2. "Keep Your Heart" – 5:43
  3. "You" – 4:05
  4. "No Future Shock" – 4:03
  5. "Killer Crane" – 6:15
  6. "Will Do" – 3:46
  7. "New Cannonball Blues" – 4:34
  8. "Repetition" – 3:46
  9. "Forgotten" – 3:40
  10. "Caffeinated Consciousness" – 3:21
;Deluxe version
  2. "All Falls Down" – 4:55
  3. "Will Do" – 5:20
  4. "Will Do" – 3:45
;iTunes version
  2. "Troubles" – 3:04
;Film
  1. "Caffeinated Consciousness" – dir. Tim Nackashi – 02:27
  2. "Second Song" – dir. Michael Please – 05:46
  3. "New Cannonball Blues" – dir. Maya Erdelyi – 11:05
  4. "No Future Shock" – dir. Jon Moritsugu & Amy Davis – 15:11
  5. "Repetition" – dir. Johnerick Lawson – 19:38
  6. "Will Do" – dir. Dugan O'Neal – 24:48
  7. "Keep Your Heart" – dir. Petro Papahadjopoulos – 28:29
  8. "Forgotten" – dir. Tunde Adebimpe – 34:09
  9. "Killer Crane" – dir. TV on the Radio & Dano Cerny – 39:26
  10. "You" – dir. Barney Clay – 49:17
  11. "Dragon Backwards" – dir. Tim Nackashi, Tunde Adebimpe & Jaleel Bunton – 59:09

    Personnel

;TV on the Radio
;Additional musicians
;Production
;Design