the radio dept.是一队瑞典的组合.音乐上显然受MBV,RIDE和LUSH这三支SHOEGAZING乐队的影响甚深.不过,那一场辉煌的 SHOEGAZING风潮早已过去十多年了.现在典型的SHOEGAZING乐队已经没有了.所以即便像RADIO DEPT.这样的也只能归入DREAM-POP之例.RADIO DEPT还比较注重吉他编排,旋律的流畅,这也使他们有着BRIT-POP的印记.总之,他们还算一支有特点的乐队.The Radio Dept.在乐迷心中是抱持著新希望，一切都肇因於“Lesser Matters”复古中求创新，让人耳目一新为之一亮。而后推出的EP“Pulling Our Weight”基本上是延续专辑的调性，梦幻的Indie-Pop带点噪音，严格来说算是持平的作品。05年的“This Past Week”EP可说是为“Pet Grief”预留伏笔，几乎褪去噪音，并且皆用鼓机节拍，音乐上更加轻巧梦幻。可谓舍弃了之前乐评称之的Noisenik乐风，全然走向Dream-Pop的美丽境界里。听音乐其实不用贴上任何标签，关它什么Indie-Pop或是Dream-Pop傻傻分不清楚，久违三年，The Radio Dept.依旧坚持他们的使命，带来最好听的瑞典之音。开场纯音乐It’s Personal引入梦幻的情境，主题曲Pet Grief Up-Beat的节拍，The Radio Dept.这次多了电气。I Wanted You To Feel The Same如以往他们的慢版歌曲，带点年少忧伤。What Will Give和Every Time也都是同样浪漫忧愁，Gibraltar的纯音乐钢琴更是悲伤。到了专辑后半部，Sleeping in、Tell以及结尾曲Always A Relief似乎豁然开朗，青春的情感总是来的快去的也快。“Pet Grief”走与“Lesser Matters”略有不同路线，但依然原汁呈现The Radio Dept.最棒的一面。这三年走来，他们始终没有令人失望。The Radio Dept. were one of the more successful shoegaze-influenced indie rock bands to come out of Sweden in the early 2000s, making waves among indie aficionados on the strength of their critically acclaimed first release, Lesser Matters. Elin Almered and Johan Duncanson formed a prototypical version of the group in Lund, Sweden, in 1995 while they were in high school, naming the group after a gas station called "Radioavdelningen." Thae duo disbanded almost as soon as they'd found a name, but Duncanson revived the group three years later, teaming up with Martin Larsson. Bassist Lisa Carlberg, drummer Per Blomgren, and keyboardist Daniel Tjader rounded out the lineup in 2001, and things took off for the group at that point. They sent a demo to Sonic magazine, which went on to feature the band on a CD sampler. Swedish indie giant Labrador caught wind of the demo via the Sonic sampler and snapped the band up; the group's debut full-length, Lesser Matters, arrived two years later, during which time Blomgren amicably split with the group. That album and the band's second release on Labrador, 2005's Pulling Our Weight EP, received widespread attention with the release of Sofia Coppola's Marie Antoinette, which featured "Keen on Boys," "Pulling Our Weight," and "I Don't Like It Like This." Carlberg left the group soon after Pulling Our Weight was released, and the group refrained from hiring another bassist, opting instead for the use of a drum machine on their next album. That release, 2006's Pet Grief, found Duncanson and Larsson turning away from the guitar-driven of their first full-length and delving into synth-pop in the spirit of the Pet Shop Boys. Due to various factors, including the fact that the band didn't tour heavily in support of the album, Pet Grief failed to sell as well as its predecessor and received little attention from the mainstream music press.