The Radio Dept - Clinging To A Scheme

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
 
The long wait is finally over! The Radio Department’s ”Clinging to a scheme” is without doubt this year’s most
eagerly anticipated Swedish indie pop album. It’s been four long years, but a simple press on Play and you’ll know it’s been worth every second. “Clinging to a scheme” combines the best components from their previous albums “Lesser matters” and “Pet grief” with soul guitars, P-funk, cut/paste-beats and 70’s futuristic orchestra. Breathtaking!
The Radio Dept. arrived with their album “Lesser matters” in 2003 which is commonly referred to as the most important Swedish indie pop album of the 21st century. It was embraced by press and fans all over the world. They had no less than two “Single of the week” in the NME and it, not surprisingly, ended up Top10 on the NME’s “Album of the year”-list. In 2006 Sophia Coppola chose to feature three of their songs in the film Marie
Antoinette that further helped them to achieve worldwide recognition and the same year the chart-topping and critically acclaimed album “Pet grief” was released. In the end of 2009 “Lesser matters” came to be one out two Swedish albums to appear on NMEs Greatest Albums of the Decade-list.
"This album is a miniature classic - here's hoping indie snobbery doesn't condemn it to the mists
of time (The Top 100 Greatest Albums of the Decade)" NME
The Radio Department’s releases have been referred to as The perfect mix between Saint Etienne and early The Jesus and Mary Chain and The best songs Pet Shop Boys never wrote and the album you’d hoped My Bloody Valentine did after ”Loveless”. And perhaps both comparisons makes sense. In a way. But the truth is that Sweden’s No. 1 alternative pop geniuses only sound like one band - themselves.
The band will do a handful of gig in May this year and a longer tour is expected in the fall of 2010.

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