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Track Listings
| 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 |
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The third album from Radio 4, Stealing Of A Nation, wears its political affiliation on its sleeve, the title referring explicitly to George W Bush's 2000 election win and the rise of the Republican right across the United States. If you're fearing a relentless bout of Michael Moore moralising, however, worry not: these agit-prop New Yorkers are sure to stage their protest from the disco floor, and consequently, the only parties to be found within Stealing Of A Nationare of the strictly non-political nature.
Recorded without the DFA production team, who brought an organic, live feel to 2002's Gotham!, this is largely synthetic fare, characterised neatly by conga-accompanied four-to-the-floor disco numbers like "Party Crashers" and "State Of Alert" – think more Duran Duran than The Clash. It comes together best on "Absolute Affirmation", which hooks a hopeful chorus to rousing piano and some killer post-punk guitar scrawl. Elsewhere, occasionally the songs get lost within the dense percussive arrangements: "No Reaction" feels like little more than a bass line, and that's pilfered from the last album anyway. The groove never lets up, though, and that feels like the most important thing. --Louis Pattison
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Brooklyn's Radio 4 was an early entrant in the post-punk revival that hit big in the early 2000s with the Rapture, YeahYeah Yeahs, et al. The group's first record was released in1999, 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 earlyrecordings 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 realised 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.
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