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TV on the Radio shine like never before on Nine Types of Light .

The group's latest album is sonically luminous in numerous ways. Ethereal textures of synths cascade into jazzy instrumentation, while Kyp Malone and Tunde Adebimpe trade vibrantly visceral vocal lines. At times, it's soulful and other times it's strangely searing. That's the brilliance of TV on the Radio. Unforgettable melodies can be born from dissonance, and beautiful harmonies can rise from aural unease. Nine Types of Light sees the group expand like never before, standing on the precipice of even more evolution.

In this exclusive interview with ARTISTdirect.com editor and Dolor author Rick Florino, Kyp Malone of TV on the Radio discusses making Nine Types of Light , some of his current favorite books, evolution, and the future for the band…

Did you have one overarching vision for Nine Types of Light ?

I think any feeling of an overarching vision didn't happen at the top of the process. All of the ideas are presented, worked on, and traded. When things start to form, there's a "curatory "process. It's like a "curation" of what makes sense together. Those songs are pulled. Often times, they're not fully written lyrically yet. At that point, there's more potential to create a theme. It's not necessarily an intentional theme or concept though. It's just what we're thinking about or experiencing at the time.

The theme builds around everything after you've had time to understand it.

Yeah, by degrees, I'm sure that we'll hear things on the record which aren't apparent to us now. It's a bit like reading a journal from years ago. You can describe an event or feeling and write it out, but you may not understand it yet. Over time, you look back on it and you have a greater understanding of what you were going through and what it was you were feeling. I feel like that happens with songs.

'T90' residents paint the town yellow - Tenino High School - The ...

“Have fun,” he said, leaving the yellow spray-painted bike behind.

The bike isn’t Fournier’s personal ride nor does it belong to someone he knows.

Instead, it’s just one of a dozen scattered throughout the city for communal use as part of the Tenino Yellow Bicycle Project. The project was conceived by Fournier, Adam Barr and several others in late May to promote mobility and exploration of the city, healthy living, a sense of community and the act of sharing.

The idea to have yellow bikes in the city began more as an artistic endeavor, the bikes representing public ownership and playing off other socially-conscious art.

Then the bikes, naturally, started getting used as transportation.

A kid looking to pedal around town with friends but who didn’t have a bike could borrow one for an afternoon. A woman not wanting to hop in her car to get groceries had an alternative mode of transportation.

“They are getting attention in town,” Fournier said. “It’s an evolving project. It adapts as the user sees fit.”

Once a bicycle is donated, it’s painted yellow and stenciled with reminders such as “respect town bike” or marked with the unofficial “T90 DOT” (Tenino Department of Transportation). When tires get worn down or something breaks, the bike is collected and repaired. Bikes will remain out for public use until about October, when they will be stored through the fall and winter and return with the good weather.

The only rules are to not chain them up and to return them to Tenino. So far none of the bikes has been stolen, though at least one has been retrieved from the outskirts of town.

Photos of the bikes are showing up on the project’s Facebook page, highlighting the artistic aspect of the project.

There’s even a yellow unicycle in the fleet, though its use is limited.

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