The Radio Dept - your father, 2003

"The Radio Dept. come across as sensitive, fragile and melancholy types when you consider the lyrics and the understated arrangements on some of the tracks (‘Bus’, ‘Strange Things Will Happen’, ‘Lost and Found’, ‘Your Father’ particularly). But for every such contemplatively serene and reflective moment here, there are also a few absolute slammers which tear along at a cracking, relentless pace with all loose components left hanging on for dear life: witness the ferociously unhinged and cacophonously crashing drums that anchor ‘Where Damage Isn’t Already Done’. If there was ever a close relative to the exhilarating Flaming Lips single ‘Race For The Prize’ from ‘The Soft Bulletin’ it is this one. It really does sound like its lo-fi cousin, right down to the arrangement – the huge rushing percussive intro (tinny buzzing guitars instead of whooshing string synths), the quieter sung verses where things drop back a bit, then the repeated crank-up all-guns-blazing of the guitar/drums refrain again."