Running Out of Love

In uscita il 21 ottobre 2016 via Labrador, Running Out of Love è il quarto album del gruppo indie pop svedese Radio Dept, successore di Clinging to a Scheme. L’album rappresenta la prima uscita sulla lunga distanza in sei anni per la formazione, che comunque aveva pubblicato tra il 2014 e il 2015 varie tracce sfuse, tra cui Death To Fascism e This Repeated Sodomy. Tra le uscite nel periodo intercorso tra i due album segnaliamo anche la compilation Passive Aggressive: Singles 2002-2010.

Secondo quanto riporta la nota stampa, la nuova prova discografica narra «di come è stata la vita in Svezia durante il 2016 e di come la società sia regredita su più livelli». Più in generale, l’album parla «di tutte quelle cose che sono andate nella direzione sbagliata… …dell’impazienza che si è trasformata in rabbia». Di seguito l’intero comunicato in lingua originale.

«We have just finished our 4th full-length album, Running Out of Love. An album about life in Sweden in 2016 and how our society seems to be in regression on so many levels. Politically, intellectually, morally…It’s an album about all the things that are moving in the wrong direction. It’s about the impatience that turns into anger, hate and ultimately withdrawal and apathy when love for the world and our existence begins to falter. For the third time in a row we have made two albums instead of one. After constant touring for a couple of years after our latest release, Clinging to a Scheme, we started writing and recording an album that we later decided to scrap. As some of you might be aware, we have been caught up in a lengthy legal battle with our record label and publisher. We took a pause from releasing singles and EP’s and instead spent our time hanging out with friends, working odd jobs and just loafing around. Ultimately we lost the court case but still managed to reach an agreement with the record company that gave us the motivation to create music again.

In the summer of 2014, ideas and a concept for Running Out of Love started to come together and the single “Death to Fascism”, now too old to be included, was the first effort towards the new album. Later, more new songs started to appear. The court case is taken care of in “Occupied”, the Swedish weapon and arms industry in “Swedish Guns” and “We Got Game” is about the proud police tradition of protecting nazis and racists, whilst at the same time using brutal violence against opposing groups of protesters. Running Out of Love has moulded itself into a rather dystopian album, mainly because it was created in a sense of deep frustration over the reactionary currents which characterize our time».

Ad anticiparlo i singoli Occupied, traccia condivisa per lo streaming assieme all’annuncio del disco, Swedish Guns, brano di protesta nei confronti dell’industria delle armi, e We Got Game, disponibili per l’ascolto di seguito. Il 13 ottobre 2016 la band svedese ha reso disponibile – via NPR – lo streaming integrale dell’album.