The Radio Dept. - Heaven’s on fire (song)
Friday, February 19th, 2010
The Radio Dept. with each release… not stay the same… not get better… But - stay very likable, and among the all-time favorites. With their warmth, plush and a bit of raggedness. These Swedes complete the line of simple joys: staring out of the window, holding a cup of hot tea. Heaven’s On Fire is an airy song, holding onto the thin piano threads, with shoegaze-shabby sound, not so easy to understand lyrics.
It seems like everyone you know is on your side – constantly moving against the tide
And the beginning sounds quite socially active: “People see rock’n'roll as youth culture. When youth culture becomes monopolized by big business, what are the youth to do? Do you have any idea? I think we should destroy the bogus copious process that is destroying youth culture.”
This is the music that pretends to be written by a friend of yours, when you listen to it for the first time, it seems that you’ve known it for a long long while.
Waiting for the album, Clinging To A Scheme, due out in April 2010.
Hot Chip is a trend becoming a legend. This British electronic band first appeared five (or more) years ago, at once becoming a “new hype” and a sensation. With time, however, unlike many other bright, but not lasting stars, they haven’t disappeared and haven’t lost their freshness. Instead, for the fourth album, they moved from being indie kids and occupying a narrow niche to being almost mainstream, and earning a Grammy nomination on the way. Alexis Taylor and Joe Goddard (who, by the way, recently released a solo album) make music that is invariably uplifting, even in its more lyrical ways. Many of their hits claim a place in year’s top tens – they are so glued to the inside of your ears without any chance of getting them out of there until you’ve listened about a hundred times on repeat. One Life Stand is no exception. Unlike the previous album, Made In The Dark, it has less collaborative effort of the whole band, most of the songs were written by Goddard and Taylor. The result? One Life Stand (a track) is one of the best love songs. Thieves In The Night, Take It In, I Feel Better are songs that stand out just a little bit from the whole album surface, On Alley Cats I could swear I was listening to the Kings of Convenience, and We Have Love sounds like a twin of Donna Summer’s I Feel Love. And all this as a whole sounds very organic. A very mature work that’s also highly addictive and entertaining. Nothing else to desire.