TV On The Radio released their new LP, Nine Types of Light, today. The band created a music video for each song on the LP, and when played together, they form an hour long film. The movie was done on pretty much a shoe-string budget, and lots of favors. The band paid great attention to the film, and Sunday I caught this dope look at the process via NYT. Check it out below.
Nine Types of Light is as much an album as it is a movie by TV on the Radio. The movie is meant to be a visual re-imagining of the record, and includes a music video for every song on the album. The band personally asked their friends and the filmmakers they admired to help direct the music videos. Tunde Adebimpe, the director for the full Nine Types of Light movie, storybooked the music videos together with interviews from local New Yorkers on various topics, including dreams, love, fame and the future. Tunde also directed the music video for Forgotten. Nine Types of Light, both the album and the movie are set to release on April 12, 2011.