Potato Head & Ashram Project presents:
THE RADIO DEPT
Sat- April 23rd
First time in Jakarta! This uber cool Swedish band is going to rock Potato Head Jakarta with their smashing live performance!
OPENING ACT BY SAJAMA CUT
Doors Open 9pm
Tix 200K
available at Potato Head Jakarta
The Radio Dept. was formed in 2001 by Johan Duncanson and Martin Carlberg. The name was stolen from an art pop band Johan had had with a couple of highschool friends during the later part of the 90s. (A little later bass player Lisa Carlberg and drummer Per Blomgren joined the band as they started rehearsing in the way bands so often do.) In 2002 swedish music magazine Sonic drew attention to the band as the song Why Won’t You Talk About It was featured on their accompanying CD-sampler, which was also how Labrador discovered the band. After having released a 7” on their own label Slottet, the debut four track ep “Against The Tide”, they were signed to Labrador.
The Radio Dept.’s debut album "Lesser Matters", was released in the spring of 2003 and by then keyboard player Daniel Tjäder had joined the band. The album became an underground success both in Sweden and internationally. The buzz that slowly grew to give the band worldwide recognition came with a little help from XL.
The second album, "Pet grief", was released in the spring of 2006 and showed a slightly more dreamy, less noisy, side of the band. The album reached #11 in the Swedish charts and continued to give The Radio Dept. new listeners all over the world. Sofia Coppola's film Marie Antoinette (2006), which featured three songs, Keen on Boys, Pulling Our Weight and I Don't Like It Like This also helped spreading the word.
In late 2006 the band started recording what was to become the album Clinging to a scheme. Well over a hundred songs were recorded.
Finally Clinging To A Scheme surfaced in spring 2010, on which the band has combined the most unequalled components from their previous output. Humbly and honestly, most reviewers were thrilled. First single Heaven’s On Fire is a passionate and yet passively aggressive attack on this unknown “you” in an almost cheerful song with a baggy hiphop-beat, obstinate guitars and a driving house-piano. Upcoming single Never Follow Suit has got Johan Duncanson’s hushed voice glued to a heavy bass, backbeat piano and shimmering flutes. A low-key but intense soliloquy on issues of belonging and not belonging.
"Passive aggressive: Singles 2002-2010" - a compilation with 28 songs that collect all single A-sides on disc one and a large part of the B-sides on disc two was released on January 25, 2011.
During the spring of 2011 they will be touring various parts of the world and start recording new songs. Who knows when any of them will be released, but as far as we know they are on to something. They are still clinging to a scheme.
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