"Nine Types of Light is as much an album as it is a movie by TV on the Radio, the band said in a statement to Mashable. "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 [lead singer of the band], 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 [yet-to-be-released] music video for 'Forgotten.'"
Fans of Brooklyn’s TV on the Radio have been waiting for the band’s next disc since 2008, when its last album, Dear Science, dropped. Last week, Rhapsody offered subscribers an early look at Nine Types of Light via a full stream.
More and more, musicians are taking advantage of the web in order to truly push the boundaries of the traditional music video -- from crowdsourcing, to interactivity, to epic films like the one below.