Why is The Radio Dept. being, like, so ignored by Indiedom?

First two tracks from the album in a single video:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iXbBT0ZNr5s

The highs are extremely high and the lows have improved (for me) over time. Kind of wish it were longer but it's better to be short and perfect than long and patchy.

it's better to be short and perfect than long and patchy.

This applies nicely to the jj album, too. I don't see the comparison except for a couple tracks, but both albums are short and sweet, and among my most played of the last few weeks.

i read these guys set out to sound nothing like jj or balearic. don't think they do either tbh.

is that dude taking a hit out of a shotgun?

Don't think this band has been much good since half the band left sometime after the 1st album. This new one is better than Pet Grief though, but I didn't like that one at all.

PEOPLE SEE ROCK AND ROLL AS-- AS YOUTH CULTURE

AND WHEN YOUTH CULTURE BECOMES MONOPOLIZED BY BIG BUSINESS... WHAT ARE THE YOUTH TO DO

DO YOU-- DO YOU HAVE ANY IDEA

I THINK WE SHOULD DESTROY THE BOGUS CAPITALIST PROCESS THAT IS DESTROYING YOUTH CULTURE

This is really good, the whole album has this upbeat-yet-melancholy sense around it, which is really charming.

these guys suck. subpar indie papp. plugging your guitar in direct doesn't make you shoegaze, it just makes the guitar sound like it's plugged in direct.

this is lo-fi bedroom generic indie straight from 1992. send it back.

i like this album a lot more than pet grief, but still not quite up to the debut. they really really need to drop whatever fx they use on the voice. it won't kill them, sambassadeur survived and came out sounding a lot better for it.

they have released some more new stuff this year, they are sounding a lot like early Cure again:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1cufn8iXYmE

ok i like it, but seriously dude it's time to consider a different way of processing your voice. why, labrador records, why??

New double-disc collection, "Passive Aggressive," is out tomorrow. Funny to me that it's categorized as "a-sides and b-sides" (Radio Dept. have a-sides?), but it's still a welcome collection. All of the second disc is unknown to me. Only a handful from the first disc are new to me, but it's still enough to make it worthwhile.

i will be picking this up

hmmm i'm p sure i have all those tracks on the various singles, will need to check

It's nearly all taken from the various singles, plus a couple of compilation appearances and non-album singles. EPs are under-represented, albums are over-represented.

This singles collection is surprisingly easy for me to keep coming back to.

Agree.

All three albums have been reissued on vinyl...

http://www.labrador.se/shop.php3
http://www.insound.com/Radio-Dept/A/19661/

New single:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5xImOZW0t7w

I didn't expect them to absorb early house music influences, much less for that to work, but I really like this direction.

These guys really take long breaks between releases! "Clinging to a Scheme" seems like it was half a lifetime ago. Kinda thought they'd broken up.

"occupied" rules

Yeah, nice stuff. I wouldn't mind an album of songs like that.

It's great! It'd be nice if a new album came out with some summer to spare.

Spotify has the new tracks---"Occupied" plus two more. And apparently they snuck in a single last year, too, though I'm not as crazy about that one.

omg hooray i return to "clinging to a scheme" all the time and always think "whatever happened to those guys"

There was a really long stretch between Pet Grief and Clinging, too. That's just their pace I guess. See also Kings of Convenience.

I wouldn't mind a new album.

Wow, these guys really like releasing songs with zero fanfare, huh: https://soundcloud.com/labrador-records/the-radio-dept-this-repeated-sodomy-1

I like this track - has a big Lesser Matters feel.

Still being ignored. Still killing it. Their 2015 single "Occupied" is incredible. The base chord changes sound like the Twin Peaks score.

New album this year. Supposedly.

Heavens on Fire is perfect pop forever

They'll be here in Seoul in a couple of weeks. Very excited.

NEW ALBUM ALERT

http://www.stereoboard.com/content/view/200308/9

Excited for this. The new songs they played here last month sounded great.

So excited. "Occupied" is still great.

Is Indie Dom still ignoring them? I hope he catches on.

pet grief is kind of cool

This is the best music news I've heard all year.

this album is glorious

i especially love can't be guilty & committed to the cause

Out or leaked?

leaked, i think it's still 2 months away

I've always like their singles and b sides a little more than their full lengths. But I like this new record!

"swedish guns" is so fucking good

I like the housey pop direction they have taken, driving around listening in the rain today was nice.

Touring too :)

I love how their albums are so concise.

wow, this sounds nothing like i expected it to do. the "housey pop" description is true. at first listen, the pace and feel is maybe too consistent. committed to the cause followed by running out of love is beautiful.