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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.

The Radio Dept. - Heaven’s On Fire mp3

The new album of the Canadians Broken Social Scene is coming in May, for now there’s a song, World Sick, given out for free, i.e., for a subscription on their site.

An old album, 2006, by Ms. John Soda, and one of the favorite songs, No. One.

Some things some times go wrong
Don’t long for something that’s gond
Don’t try to bring it back
Don’t try to understand

One second I thought, what?
Two seconds later - forgotten…

Mr Scruff live DJ mix from Keep It Unreal, Band On The Wall, Manchester, Sat 6th feb 2010  by  Mr Scruff

Can’t help it, I just love everything that Kieran Hebden does. BBC Radio 1 Essential Mix by Four Tet:

Essential mix (January 2010)  by  Four Tet

In the proximity of Bonobo’s “Black Sands” new album release (March 29, via Ninja Tune), there is a beautiful (should I mention this?) track Eyesdown. Follow the flyer link, and it will get you to the mp3.

Bonobo - ‘Eyesdown’ (Preview Edit)  by  Ninja Tune

The Knife will release a new album, Tomorrow, In A Year, on March 1, 2010. Gloomy and eerie sounds are an opera, built on nothing else but Charles Darwin’s “On the Origin of the Species.” Wild nature as is.

Read & Listen:
Tomorrow, In A Year

My song of the day was determined when I started morning with the new album by Los Campesinos! “Romance Is Boring” playing in my iPod on the way to the office. And now I find the video for the title song. Enjoy!

Romance Is Boring by Los Campesinos! from Los Campesinos! on Vimeo.

Kieran Hebden’s new album, There Is Love In You, premiered on Soundcloud. If you google/twitter, there are downloadable links too. I really dig one of the comments on Soundcloud: “Everything Moby tries to be, but isn’t.”

There Is Love In You by  Four Tet