The Radio Dept. tackle the arms industry on new single "Swedish Guns"
31 August 2016, 10:25
| Written by
Laurence Day
Sweden's The Radio Dept. have shared "Swedish Guns", the new single from upcoming album Running Out Of Love.
The album is described as focusing on "life in Sweden in 2016 moving in the wrong direction: politically, intellectually, morally..." with "Swedish Guns" in particular taking aim at the nation's arms industry.
Running Out Of Love is out 21 October via Labrador, and follows 2010 LP Clinging To A Scheme.
Last year The Radio Dept. released a new EP titled Occupied, plus a single called "This Repeated Sodomy". One-off single "Death To Fascism" arrived in 2014.
Check out "Swedish Guns" below.
Tracklist:
- Sloboda Narodu
- Swedish Guns
- We Got Game
- Thieves Of State
- Occupied
- This Thing Was Bound To Happen
- Can’t Be Guilty
- Committed To The Cause
- Running Out Of Love
- Teach Me To Forget
Latest
- Gordi shares new single, "Cutting Room Floor"
- Joe Armon-Jones joins forces with Greentea Peng and Wu-Lu on new release, "Another Place"
- Picture Parlour unveil new track, "Who’s There To Love Without You?"
- Future Utopia team up with Lava La Rue on new single, "The Pleasure Trap"
- Legss return with first release in two years, "Gloss"
- Nia Archives launches Up Ya Archives Records with "Get Loose" featuring Cheetah
- SCALER sign to Black Acre and return with new single, "Broken Entry"
Get the Best Fit take on the week in music direct to your inbox every Friday
Read next
Listen
Le Charme’s “Garden (I Know You Want Me, You Want More)” is a postcard etched, but never sent
AtticOmatic weaves a rich tapestry of sound in the tender post-rock “Two Alarms”
For Nina balances between tension and release in driving alt-rock single “Hounds”
Experimental soul artist McCabe gets vulnerable in his bittersweet summer single “Vicious”
Tapeworms explore the ups and downs of following your dreams in the atmospheric “Safe And Sound”
Rob de Boer celebrates tenderness in his soulful blues-fusion track “Man to You”
Reviews

Emma-Jean Thackray
Weirdo
23 Apr 2025

Viagra Boys
viagr aboys
23 Apr 2025

William Tyler
Time Indefinite
23 Apr 2025

Tunde Adebimpe
Thee Black Boltz
16 Apr 2025