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

Anyone heard it yet?

http://www.labrador.se/cover/lab095.jpg

release date: April 12

1. it's personal
2. pet grief
3. a window
4. i wanted you to feel the same
5. south side
6. the worst taste in music
7 every time
8. what will give?
9. gibraltar
10. sleeping in
11. tell
12. always a relief

Hopefully XL Records will distribute it in North America like they did for Lesser Matters.

good.

I sort of feel the opposite. I like listening to their songs, but Lesser Matters isn't very exciting when taken in a large dose.

This new single is not quite as immediate as "Where Damage...", but it has some shimmery goodness.

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/9/95/Clinging_to_a_Scheme.jpg

Clinging to a Scheme is the upcoming third album by The Radio Dept. It is going to be released on April 21, 2010 by Labrador Records.

Track listing

1. Domestic Scene
2. Heaven's on Fire
3. This Time Around
4. Never Follow Suit
5. A Token of Gratitude
6. The Video Dept.
7. Memory Loss
8. David
9. Four Months in the Shade
10. You Stopped Making Sense

this has leaked

Is it legit? I know there's some question about the leak a few days ago (maybe this one's different?)

"Heaven's on Fire" is awesome, but sadly not a KISS cover.

yeah, mine is good and i'm liking it so far.

The only problem with this band is the vocals. Who decided the guy could sing? ...he's terrible! They would be like a million times better with a good singer.

Just got a hot review on p4k. Kinda jj'ish? (Or is that vice-versa?) Anyway, I'm taking the cover as a recommendation and I plan to listen to the album in preferred state this week.

this is a great record. one of my most played for 2010. it is perfect for night listening. might be their best album yet.

will have to go read the review, thank for pointing it out.

It is a great album though it's not a huge growth. I like it much more than Pet Grief, but not as much as Lesser Matters, which I don't think they'll ever top.

Picked this up last week myself and it's excellent... possibly their best work.

Agreed that "Heaven's on Fire" is stunning.

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.