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Apr 14, 2011Nine Types Of Light is mostly mellow, slow jams and funky, upbeat love songs.
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Apr 8, 2011The sort-of-romantic themes and sort-of-funk grooves lend a greater unity than usual, but save for a few tracks, the general impression is of lots of bustling, itchy industry – the scratchy guitars, the scuttling beats, the dying-firework synths – to no particularly attractive end.
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Apr 11, 2011Could be that the breathlessly lauded TV on the Radio is operating on some encrypted frequency that's beyond mortal ears, but the Brooklyn, N.Y., head-trippers mostly sound asleep at the switch on their fifth album.
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Apr 12, 2011Nine Types of Light finds the band firmly in the grip of a middle age that doesn't particularly suit them. So to put it in the popular parlance, it's a Dull Record for Times that are Anything But.
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Apr 8, 2011You leave Nine Kinds of Light completely unaltered, neither enlightened nor offended, simply having experienced a series of first-person statements: Adebimpe in his doorless (and not terribly interesting) tower of self.
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User score distribution:
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Positive: 69 out of 79
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Mixed: 6 out of 79
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Negative: 4 out of 79
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Apr 21, 2011
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