2CD CD - Tuba Records

NYHETER UKE 9 - 2010
FORHÅND 26. APRIL
THE RADIO DEPT.
CLINGING TO A SCHEME
Labrador
LAB 105
733223300105
CD
Tracklist
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 ”Clining 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.
FORHÅND 26. APRIL
JESSE MALIN & THE ST. MARKS SOCIAL
LOVE IT TO LIFE
SideOneDummy
SD 1415 / SD 1415-1
0603967141528 / 0603967141511
CD/LP
Tracklist
Burning The Bowery
All The Way From Moscow
Disco Ghetto
The Archer
St. Marks Sunset
Lowlife In A Highrise
Burn The Bridge
Revelations
Black Boombox
Lonely At Heart
After three critically acclaimed solo records, dozens of world tours and TV appearances, Jesse Malin found himself back in
New York City questioning his next move. From his days fronting seminal hardcore trio Heart Attack and glam punks D Generation,
then seven years on the road as a solo artist, Malin had cultivated a devout fan base. He’d shared stages with everyone
from The White Stripes to Counting Crows, The Hold Steady to Lucinda Williams, but felt like he was losing the plot.
Malin contemplated going back to school, becoming a standup comedian or a Las Vegas wedding DJ, and even
started work on a documentary film about DC hardcore Rastafarians The Bad Brains. For over a year he didn’t play
or record. When asked by a Hollywood screenwriter to pen songs for a film about author J.D. Salinger, Malin — a fan
of Catcher in the Rye and other Salinger works — traveled to Cornish, NH hoping to speak to the famous recluse.
In typical punk-rock fashion, instead of getting the interview, Malin landed at the local precinct for trespassing and
was released only after the cops watched his video duet with Bruce Springsteen for “Broken Radio” on YouTube
and were convinced he was just a writer doing research. Though he never met Salinger (who passed away this past
January), Malin made the most of the experience by writing “The Archer” and “Lonely at Heart”—two songs that
would make him want to work again and become the basis for his new album.
Over the summer of 2009, in the basement of Avenue A watering hole Hi-Fi, the songs came forth. Malin, with
impresario Don DiLego, drummer Randy Schrager, guitarist Matt Hogan, and bassist/DJ Tommy USA, worked with
his newly formed band to bash out an album’s worth of gritty anthems, and The St. Marks Social was born. A solid
band, but one with an open door to Malin’s community of musician friends - longtime partner in crime Ryan Adams,
pop singer Mandy Moore, fellow label mate Brian Fallon, and former bandmates from D Generation Howie Pyro
and Danny Sage - the Social is a group effort to keep the P.M.A. Says Malin, “To me, rock ‘n’ roll is an exorcism that
begins every night when the sun goes down, the music starts playing, and the spirits start flowing. It helps to say
things in public over dirty microphones. It’s a way to spit out the poison.”
When Jesse met producer Ted Hutt (Lucero, Flogging Molly, The Gaslight Anthem) one drunken night at a local bar,
their talk of making a record fast, loose, and raw, was the beginning of Hutt’s quest to create a record that would
encompass Malin’s roots and evolution—from hardcore thrasher to punk/folk singer-songwriter. The album’s basic
tracks were laid in three days at Greenpoint, Brooklyn’s Mission Studios, and the rest at Sonic Youth’s Think Tank
Studios in Hoboken, NJ. Filled with the characters Malin does best—messengers and misanthropes, hipsters and
hypocrites—and as always, his constant themes of redemption, nightlife, heartbreak, and survival, LOVE IT TO
LIFE—a sentiment taken from a ticket stub Joe Strummer autographed for Jesse—was built with desperate optimism
that shouts in gang vocals that no matter how bad it gets, you’re never alone.
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