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THE RADIO DEPT. / Running Out of Love (2016., Labrador Records)

Klupski orijentiran, s puno više elektronike nego što smo imali priliku čuti dosad, glazbeno i tematski kvalitetan. Na novom ostvarenju možemo čuti dream pop, synth pop zvuk, ali i rave trenutke 80-ih godina.

The Radio Dept. su uvijek bili politički angažirani, što se može primijetiti i u uvodnoj pjesmi Sloboda Narodu koja aludira na izjavu jugoslavenskog političara Stjepana Filipovića: Smrt fašizmu, sloboda narodu. Occupied je sedmominutna numera koja nam najbolje prenosi razmišljanja i frustracije benda:

We all wish there was a hell for some people / Some kind of retribution/ but as you know that’s not the way it goes / When was it ever? / ‘Cause wicked people thrive when the likes of you go down.

Evo što o samom albumu kažu članovi benda:

We have just finished our 4th full-length album, Running Out of Love. An album about life in Sweden in 2016 and how our society seems to be in regression on so many levels. Politically, intellectually, morally…It’s an album about all the things that are moving in the wrong direction. It’s about the impatience that turns into anger, hate and ultimately withdrawal and apathy when love for the world and our existence begins to falter.

Running Out of Love has moulded itself into a rather dystopian album, mainly because it was created in a sense of deep frustration over the reactionary currents which characterize our time.

Vrlo slušljiv, možda ne i prepamtljiv, Running Out of Love je kvalitetan pomak prema naprijed, te nešto mračniji i tematski direktniji album od svojih prethodnika.

Slušamo ga kao album tjedna u srijedu i subotu od 15:00h.

Tracklist:

01 Sloboda Narodu
02 Swedish Guns
03 We Got Game
04 Thieves of State
05 Occupied
06 This Thing Was Bound to Happen
07 Can’t Be Guilty
08 Committed to the Cause
09 Running Out of Love
10 Teach Me to Forget