Track Listing 1. Party Crashers 2. Transmission 3. State Of Alert 4. FRA Type I And II 5. Death Of American Radio 6. Nation 7. No Reaction 8. Absolute Affirmation 9. Give Me All Your Money 10. Shake The Foundation 11. Dismiss The Sound 12. Coming Up Empty 13. Stealing Of A Nation (the making of.../video)
| Details | | Number of CDs: | 1 | | Producer: | Max Hayes | | Recording Type: | Studio | | Distributor: | PIAS UK/EMI | | Recording Mode: | Stereo |
Album Notes Includes documentary video.This is an Enhanced CD, which contains both regular audio tracks and multimedia computer files.Radio 4: Tommy Williams (vocals, guitar); Gerard Garone (vocals, keyboards); Anthony Roman (vocals, bass instrument); P.J. O'Connor (vocals, percussion); Greg Collins (drums).Engineers: Max Heyes; Phil Palazzolo; Tim Wills.Recording information: Excello Studios, Brooklyn, NY.Brooklyn's Radio 4 was an early entrant in the post-punk revival that hit big in the early 2000s with the Rapture, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, et al. The group's first record was released in 1999, and by the time of its third full-length, 2004's STEALING OF A NATION, it had become a well-oiled dance-rock machine. Heavily indebted to the scratchy, angular punk-funk sound of A Certain Ratio and Gang of Four, the band followed a similar developmental path to the Rapture, in that its early recordings were aggressive, guitar-heavy affairs that subsequently gave way to a more polished, danceable, synth-embroidered approach. Accordingly, STEALING OF A NATION is probably Radio 4's most fully realized offering to date, owing as much to vintage New Order as it does to the Fall or Wire and expanding on the knack for catchy choruses and anthemic slogans that peeked out of its earlier albums. For all this stylistic advancement, the band still retains a rock edge, however, best exemplified by "Absolute Affirmation," which wouldn't have sounded out of place on the first Strokes album.
Editorial Reviews 12 club-worthy neo-wave rockers layered in the band's signature Gang Of Four-via-keyboards ambiance... CMJ
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