The Radio Dept - Clinging To A Scheme [2010]

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| Artist : The Radio Dept |
| Album : Clinging To A Scheme |
| Label : Labrador |
| Year : 2010 |
| Genre : Indie |
| Rip date : Apr-07-2010 |
| Store date : Apr-20-2010 |
| Size : 51,0 MB |
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| 01 - Domestic Scene 02:25 |
| 02 - Heaven's On Fire 03:32 |
| 03 - This Time Around 03:46 |
| 04 - Never Follow Suit 04:10 |
| 05 - A Token Of Gratitude 04:07 |
| 06 - The Video Dept 03:25 |
| 07 - Memory Loss 04:17 |
| 08 - David 03:32 |
| 09 - Four Months In The Shade 01:50 |
| 10 - You Stopped Making Sense 03:54 |
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| 34:58 min |
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| The Radio Dept. were one of the more successful shoegaze-influenced |
| indie rock bands to come out of Sweden in the early 2000s, making waves |
| among indie aficionados on the strength of their critically acclaimed |
| first release, Lesser Matters. Elin Almered and Johan Duncanson formed a |
| prototypical version of the group in Lund, Sweden, in 1995 while they |
| were in high school, naming the group after a gas station called |
| Radioavdelningen. Almered and Duncanson disbanded almost as soon as |
| they'd found a name, but Duncanson revived the group three years later, |
| teaming up with Martin Larsson. Bassist Lisa Carlberg, drummer Per |
| Blomgren, and keyboardist Daniel Tjader rounded out the lineup in 2001, |
| and things took off for the group at that point. They sent a demo to |
| Sonic magazine, which went on to feature the band on a CD sampler. |
| Swedish indie giant Labrador caught wind of the demo via the sampler and |
| snapped the band up; the group's debut full-length, Lesser Matters, |
| arrived two years later, during which time Blomgren amicably split with |
| the group. That album and the band's second release on Labrador, 2005's |
| Pulling Our Weight EP, received widespread attention with the release of |
| Sofia Coppola's Marie Antoinette, which featured "Keen on Boys," |
| "Pulling Our Weight," and "I Don't Like It Like This." |
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| Carlberg left the group soon after Pulling Our Weight was released, and |
| the group refrained from hiring another bassist, opting instead for the |
| use of a drum machine on its next album. That release, 2006's Pet Grief, |
| found Duncanson and Larsson turning away from the guitar-driven aspects |
| of their first full-length and delving into synth pop in the spirit of |
| the Pet Shop Boys. Due to various factors, including the fact that the |
| band didn't tour heavily in support of the album, Pet Grief failed to |
| sell as well as its predecessor and received little attention from the |
| mainstream music press. The Radio Dept. took their time recording |
| material for their next album, and it wasn't until summer of 2008 that a |
| new single, Freddie and the Trojan Horse, was released. More delays led |
| to nothing further surfacing (and the album that was supposed to be out |
| in late 2008, Clinging to a Scheme, being shelved) until the next |
| summer, when the single David was released. |
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