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Malmö, Sweden (1995 – present)

The Radio Dept. is a Swedish indie pop / shoegaze band signed to Labrador Records. They have released two full length albums and a series of singles and EPs. The band originated in Lund, Sweden.

In 1995, The Radio Dept. was formed by Elin Almered and Johan Duncanson (who were old school friends). The name was taken from a gas station/radio repair shop in Lund, Sweden, which had a large sign with the name Radioavdelningen, (“The Radio Department” in Swedish) hanging outside their shop.

Since 1995 members have been coming and going and at some points there has never really been a Radio Department at all.

Martin Larsson and Johan Duncanson started playing together in 1998 and decided to use the name The Radio Dept. Since then the band has done lots of gigs and lots of recordings. The Radio Dept. recorded 4-tracks in friends’ living rooms or at home, in smelly warehouse, in demo studios with blinking fluorescent lightning and at schools.

In the autumn of 2001 Lisa Carlberg and Per Blomgren (Bass & drums respectively), joined the band and they started rehearsing in the way bands so often do. Soon afterwards they were all joined by Daniel Tjader on the keyboards. Their recordings were sent to the music magazine Sonic and got a nice review. They were also on the free CD sampler that comes with the magazine. That’s where Labrador Records discovered and learned to love the band. Now they’re a part of Sweden’s finest indie label.

Comings and goings

1	Pulling Our Weight	977
2	Pet Grief full track	730
3	It's Personal full track	711
4	I Don't Like It Like This	679
5	South Side full track	634
6	A Window full track	603
7	Keen on Boys	602
8	Sleeping In full track	598
9	Every Time full track	585
10	Always a Relief full track	578
11	The Worst Taste In Music (Extended) free download	557
12	Tell full track	539
13	Freddie and the trojan horse free download	529
14	Gibraltar full track	512
15	I Wanted You to Feel the Same	487

Top Albums

Pet Grief
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Lesser Matters
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Pulling Our Weight
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This Past Week
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jaacobs wrote:
Tuesday evening

i think it's TBA for now.

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tolkkii wrote:
Tuesday evening

what did it change to?

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silenceman wrote:
Tuesday morning

electromasters

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arkanusboy wrote:
Sunday afternoon

@doiscareyou: of course it's shoegaze. listen to Keen On Ooys and tell if it's not shoegaze!!! it's everything there: distorted crazy atmospheric guitars with a whispered ethereal vocal.

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mouaii wrote:
Sunday afternoon

Every Time is beautiful. Hope it doesn't get old soon :p

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idioteque13 wrote:
Friday evening

waiting..........

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strokesofgenius wrote:
7 days ago

WHAT?! DDDDD:

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jaacobs wrote:
7 days ago

and the title is changed

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jaacobs wrote:
7 days ago

album is delayed again :((((((

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nymph_ wrote:
8 days ago

nugazer

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amiude wrote:
8 days ago

my dream and my sleep.

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eduardo2007 wrote:
9 days ago

más grande que América... y que Asia.

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nouvellevie wrote:
9 days ago

I do like it like this.

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imaginarium wrote:
10 days ago

amazing.

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placebo_molko wrote:
12 days ago

mh... labrador site says "fall 2008" .. it don't say "september" anymore.. maybe we have to wait a bit more .. (?)

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psychic_hearts wrote:
14 days ago

just over a month to the new album! i hope they don't change their mind....

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softundertummy wrote:
15 days ago

im feeling sexy

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tanna1 wrote:
16 days ago

full psyched for their new album. ooooooooooh yeah!

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kimislegend wrote:
18 days ago

dreamy

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Dexetinha wrote:
19 days ago

amazing band! *-*

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