New Radio 4: Stealing of a Nation

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So it's round 2 for the class of 2002 (Radio 4, Interpol)...wait, Strokes may be 2001, and maybe Rapture are earlier than that...then all of you post "best ofs" for a certain year, do you have to go look up the copyright credits? Cosa i have no idea when older stuff came out...

ANYWAY! (sorry), does anyone still care about Radio 4? Anyone seeing 'em at the Bowery Ballroom tomorrow night?

― paulhw (paulhw), Tuesday, 7 September 2004 20:05 (twenty-one years ago)

Radio 4 doesn't exactly come out smelling like a rose with their new formula, but it's a hell of a lot more interesting than Interpol's 2nd attempt at making their debut record.

Radio 4: thumbs up.
Interpol: thumbs down.

― Johnny Fever (johnny fever), Tuesday, 7 September 2004 20:15 (twenty-one years ago)

Haven't heard the record, but the Si Begg remixes of "Absolute Affirmation" are fucking great.

― philip sherburne (philip sherburne), Tuesday, 7 September 2004 20:51 (twenty-one years ago)

i take it DFA didn't produce this time?

― jed_ (jed), Wednesday, 8 September 2004 03:03 (twenty-one years ago)

I'm not sure jed. I know that I haven't bothered to pick it up off the shelf in the store. I haven't really enjoyed Radio 4 for quite a while - keep seeing them live, and they really look short of something.

― ___ (___), Wednesday, 8 September 2004 07:03 (twenty-one years ago)

heard an advance copy
overproduced (the drums and treated guitars) and unimaginative arrangements (notably on some boring "dub" influenced songs. They sound like the only dub they ever heard was from sandinista). Boring band who are now sporting political lyrics, ughh.

― jb, Wednesday, 8 September 2004 12:21 (twenty-one years ago)

It's not produced by the DFA. It's produced by some dude named Max Heyes. The disc is definitely more dancefloor oriented, and not in the sense that people somehow "dance" to Gang of Four.

― Josh in Chicago (Josh in Chicago), Wednesday, 8 September 2004 13:12 (twenty-one years ago)

I've hear from multiple sources that they are all assholes and really full of themselves. Not that it matters. I've never heard them.

― Magic City (ano ano), Wednesday, 8 September 2004 13:18 (twenty-one years ago)

I haven't heard it myself but I have gathered from the most reliable of sources that it's a bit rub.

Otoh, your review in Ucunt seems to suggest that you think it's actually a better album than Gotham - wtf's that all about, Marcello?

― Stewart Osborne (Stewart Osborne), Wednesday, 8 September 2004 14:15 (twenty-one years ago)

Well, only in the same way that Grand Admiral Doenitz was a slight improvement on Hitler.

― Donnie Smith The Quiz Kid, Thursday, 9 September 2004 07:26 (twenty-one years ago)

They played on Conan tonight and it sapped the life out of me. Aren't they supposed to be a better live band?

― Johnny Fever (johnny fever), Thursday, 9 September 2004 07:43 (twenty-one years ago)

".... only in the same way that Grand Admiral Doenitz was a slight improvement on Hitler"

But I quite like Gotham.... does this make me a neo-nazi?

― Stewart Osborne (Stewart Osborne), Thursday, 9 September 2004 08:02 (twenty-one years ago)

I like Gotham too, and I'm quite sure I'm not a neo-Nazi.

― supercub, Thursday, 9 September 2004 08:07 (twenty-one years ago)

Have you heard the new one though?

― Stewart Osborne (Stewart Osborne), Thursday, 9 September 2004 08:21 (twenty-one years ago)

I listened to it in a record store briefly, and I wasn't feeling it.

jb OTM with the overproduced comment. It doesn't have the same kind of energy as the first.

― supercub, Thursday, 9 September 2004 08:36 (twenty-one years ago)

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