{"product_id":"the-radio-dept-pet-grief-20th-anniversary-edition","title":"The Radio Dept. - Pet Grief (20th Anniversary Edition)","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThe Radio Dept.\u003c\/strong\u003e have announced a twentieth-anniversary vinyl reissue of \u003cem\u003ePet Grief\u003c\/em\u003e, their sophomore album and one of the most quietly distinctive records in their catalogue.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eOriginally released on 12 April 2006, \u003cem\u003ePet Grief\u003c\/em\u003e emerged from a period of false starts and reinvention. The band had already recorded much of a more electronic album before deciding that it felt too close to what was happening around them at the time. They put most of it aside and began again, bringing guitars back into the process and reconnecting with some of the melodic instincts behind \u003cem\u003eLesser Matters\u003c\/em\u003e. But the result was not a return to \u003cem\u003eLesser Matters\u003c\/em\u003e. Instead, \u003cem\u003ePet Grief\u003c\/em\u003e became its cleaner, more restrained counterpart: twelve songs built from soft-focus synthesisers, programmed rhythms, piano, strings and guitars allowed to shimmer rather than overwhelm. What initially seemed like a very pop record later revealed itself as something calmer, mellower and sadder.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAround the same time, music supervisor Brian Reitzell approached The Radio Dept. about contributing music to Sofia Coppola's Marie Antoinette. The film ultimately featured three earlier Radio Dept. songs, while some of the unused music developed during that period found its way into \u003cem\u003ePet Grief\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003ePet Grief\u003c\/em\u003e was also a deliberate attempt to escape the language that had formed around The Radio Dept.'s debut. Rather than repeat the distortion-heavy, reverb-soaked sound of \u003cem\u003eLesser Matters\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cstrong\u003eJohan Duncanson\u003c\/strong\u003e and \u003cstrong\u003eMartin Carlberg\u003c\/strong\u003e, credited at the time as Martin Larsson, looked towards a cleaner strain of 1980s pop, with \u003cstrong\u003ePrefab Sprout\u003c\/strong\u003e, \u003cstrong\u003eThe Blue Nile\u003c\/strong\u003e and \u003cstrong\u003ePet Shop Boys\u003c\/strong\u003e among the reference points. Recorded and produced by the band themselves, \u003cem\u003ePet Grief\u003c\/em\u003e remained rooted in the same fiercely independent idea that had guided them from the beginning: pop music made at home, without surrendering creative control. The title refers to the idea of grief as something one keeps close and tends to, almost like a pet. Rather than a passing emotion to be overcome, it becomes a familiar companion and part of one's way of seeing the world.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThat atmosphere is present before the record even begins. The cover photograph was taken by Johan Duncanson's father, Alan Duncanson, at Skånes Djurpark in southern Sweden in the mid-1980s. Rediscovered years later among his parents' photographs, its kilts, cigarettes, children and slightly blurred distance became inseparable from the album's identity.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"The songs on \u003cem\u003ePet Grief\u003c\/em\u003e are easy to fall in love with.\" - Pitchfork\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"Amid all the darkness, shines a bright light.\" - NME\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFFO: Beach House, Wild Nothing, Beach Fossils, The Pains of Being Pure at Heart, Chromatics, Galaxie 500.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Just So!","offers":[{"title":"DINKED Archive Edition #37","offer_id":59567988834649,"sku":"SDZ-53177","price":40.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":false},{"title":"Black Vinyl LP","offer_id":59568017375577,"sku":"SDZ-53178","price":30.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0588\/3455\/0945\/files\/A37_MAIN.png?v=1790251884","url":"https:\/\/spindizzyrecords.com\/products\/the-radio-dept-pet-grief-20th-anniversary-edition","provider":"Spindizzy Dublin","version":"1.0","type":"link"}