Photos: The Radio Dept. – Seaport Music Festival, NYC 15/07/11

On what feels like an endless promotional campaign for last year’s career defining Clinging To A Scheme and this year’s retrospective collection Passive Aggressive, The Radio Dept. returned to the States this week to play a handful of shows. Lighting up the Manhattan skyline last night the Swedish trio played a free show at the South Street seaport. A set consisting of the classic singles ‘Worst Taste In Music’, ‘Heaven’s On Fire’, ‘David’ and – according to TLOBF’s photographer Cory Smith – a possible new instrumental song that closed their show. The band’s back catalogue Lesser Matters (2003), Pet Grief (2006) and Clinging To A Scheme (2010) are all available to order now via the bands label Labrador Records. With each album offering a glorious progression from noisey shoegaze to heart-on-sleeve dream pop, you’d be a fool not to pick all three of these releases up. Head to the Labrador store now and fill your boots.