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Jul05

Thieves Like Us – Again And Again (Review)

Thieves Like Us

Again And Again

Released by Shelflife Records


Thieves Like Us are two Swedes and one American living in Berlin, Paris, and Milan. This multi-national band is out with their second long player Again and Again, recorded in early 2009 in a basement in Paris. This lo-fi pop band got their name from the 1984 New Order song, and it doesn’t stop there. The album is filled with references to 80’s electronic, goth and post-punk bands. Album opener “Never Known Love” opens up like a slow pop song with a youth sounding chorus a la Passion Pit or ...

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Feb12

New Radio Department! Free MP3. (MP3)

INTERVIEWER: “People see Rock and Roll as youth culture, and when youth culture becomes monopolized by big business, what is the youth to do — do you have any idea?”
YOUTH ON THE STREET: “I think we should destroy the bogus capitalist process that is destroying youth culture.”

Sounds nice, but of course, history and human nature have proven that, even though Big Biz is fucked up, even in a world without the profit motive to blame,  you’d still have to destroy the cult of personality, and the (unintentionally ironic) tyranny of the herdspeak created by rebelling, identity-seeking youth, in addition to the inherent fetishism of fame which can bring out the worst in us and, as has been said, makes a man take things over, and which can eff up even the best-laid plans of artist. But I digress…In any case, thus begins the latest from Radio Department which you can download for free… …MORE

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