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Clinging To A Scheme
The Radio Dept. | LabradorWhether you call it shoegazing music or simply the Scandinavian version of New Order-ish pop, this Swedish trio should graduate from “that cool band from the Marie Antoinette soundtrack” with their third album. Smart (the cascading flute-and-piano-fueled single “Heaven’s On Fire” opens with a sound bite of a Thurston Moore interview from the seminal grunge documentary 1991: The Year Punk Broke) and sonically diverse (insects chirp on “Memory Loss,” the instrumental “Four Months In The Shade” is both dark and utterly danceable, while the synthy slow jam “David” is filled with harp and xylophone arrangements) it’ll become your new mood-elevation disc. Trust us.
