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CD: TV on the Radio - Nine Types of Light | reviews, news & interviews

CD: TV on the Radio - Nine Types of Light

CD: TV on the Radio - Nine Types of Light

New York five-piece hit gold with their sunshine-filled fouth album

TV on the Radio let their hair down and deliver a smashing pop stunner

Brooklyn band TV on the Radio have been critical favourites since they first appeared almost a decade ago. Always an intriguing proposition, they also seemed from their inception to be shrewdly aware of their musical Catholicism, as if they'd followed Brian Eno's Oblique Strategies before they'd even had their first jam. Brilliant, then, but tinged with Wire-friendly cerebralism.

Brooklyn band TV on the Radio have been critical favourites since they first appeared almost a decade ago. Always an intriguing proposition, they also seemed from their inception to be shrewdly aware of their musical Catholicism, as if they'd followed Brian Eno's Oblique Strategies before they'd even had their first jam. Brilliant, then, but tinged with Wire-friendly cerebralism.

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