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The Radio Field – Air and Sunlight (Album)<\/h2>\n

Zwei Jahre nach ihrem Deb\u00fctalbum sind The Radio Field zur\u00fcck mit Nummer 2 – Air and Sunlight – und bleiben damit in der Spur: Reiner gitarriger Indiepop, der sich 30 Jahre lang von Jangle, Shoegaze, Powerpop, Luft und Sonnenschein ern\u00e4hrt hat. 32 Minuten leichte Songs \u00fcber die schweren Themen, die einen so oft fast vom Weg abbringen. Fast.<\/p>\n

Wie immer sind viele G\u00e4ste zu h\u00f6ren: Neben dem neuen Mitglied der Live-Besetzung Hanne-Lotta Blum (Solo D&B artist, singt bei Apogee<\/em>), welche auch Trompete und Fl\u00fcgelhorn spielt (A Mess<\/em>), finden sich auf dem Album die Stimmen von Suzie Kerstgens (Klee, singt bei Hey You<\/em>), Federica Tassano (Phantom Handshakes, Brooklyn, singt bei Sellout<\/em>), Hannin Nasirat (Attic Ocean, singt bei What It Takes<\/em>), Crystin Fawn (solo Artist und the sea & the sun, singt bei Ride With Me<\/em> und Mimi Welldirty (singt bei Same<\/em>, nach She Needs Therapy auf Album 1 wieder mit dabei) und Thomas Baumhoff (Subterfuge, The Baumhoff Explosives, singt bei It’s Alright<\/em>).<\/p>\n

Air and Sunlight<\/em> macht also da weiter, wo Don’ts & Dos<\/em>\u00a0aufgeh\u00f6rt hat. Richtig so.<\/p>\n

Ausf\u00fchrliche Bandhistorie weiter unten …<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/section>

QUICK LISTEN:<\/p>\n

It’s Alright (feat. The Baumhoff Explosives)<\/p>\n\n

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LER0055 (CD)
\nLER0054 (Digital)
\nRelease 2025-09-19
\nLabel Code 93047<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>

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Upcoming\u00a0Live Dates\u00a0<\/strong><\/h2>\n

25.09.2025 Berlin, Posh Teckel<\/p>\n

01.10.2025 D\u00fcsseldorf, ZAKK<\/p>\n

13.10.2025 M\u00fchlheim adR, SOL Kulturbar<\/p>\n

14.10.2025 K\u00f6ln, Subway<\/p>\n

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A Mess<\/em> and It’s Alright<\/em> are the first singles to be released from The Radio Field’s forthcoming Air and Sunlight<\/em> album that will be released in Mid September. and both show that the jangle-pop brilliance of 2023’s Don’ts and Dos<\/em> is highly to be replicated. JANGLEPOPHUB<\/p>\n

A Mess<\/em> is a nostalgic, retro-leaning indie pop tune. It\u2019s jangly, catchy and easy to love. It reminds us of acts as varied as The Wave Pictures, The Beatles, The Smiths, Belle & Sebastian and The Hold Steady. START TRACK<\/p>\n

The Radio Field klingen diesen Deut gr\u00f6\u00dfer als die Summe ihrer Teile, amerikanischer, nach infekti\u00f6sem Collegerock.\u00a0Ein Album, das in seinen ansteckenden Melodien und schicken Arrangements nach hochh\u00e4ngenden Fr\u00fcchten greift, wo anderen das Fallobst gen\u00fcgt VISIONS<\/p>\n

Solche Platten gibt es eigentlich nur in England. Klingt traumhaft, als h\u00e4tten Teenage Fanclub mit Mitgliedern von Slowdive und den Pastels eine Platte beim wiederbelebten Sarah Records aufgenommen. RHEINISCHE POST<\/p>\n

Ziemlich hittig!\u00a0 LINUS VOLKMANN<\/p>\n

Klingt so easy, aber solche Tracks muss man erstmal schreiben k\u00f6nnen!\u00a0 KLAUS FIEHE<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/section>

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Band Bio (long version)<\/strong><\/h2>\n

So here i was in late 2020, the first year of the pandemic. We were in our second lockdown and things at home started becoming more and more a routine. My band Subterfuge<\/em> had just recently reformed and our album Dots.<\/em> was in the final stages of recording, where my parts were fully done already. Also for my other, almost life-long project The Modern Air & Space Society<\/em> on which I had been working for the last 15 years (still to be released) all recordings had been made and I was still waiting for my partner Lomp to create the corresponding comic.<\/p>\n

Some say it only takes enough boredom and a musical instrument to create something good. I picked up the guitar much more than usual while the Social Media work for Subterfuge<\/em> had reminded me a lot of the heyday of my musical socialisation: C86, early Creation, US College Rock. Within a couple of days a handful of songs came out just like this.\u00a0All shops were closed at the time so I mail-ordered a Rickenbacker 12-string, got the AC30 home from the practice room and started recording those songs. Josephine came with the train one Saturday, sang her angelic backing vocals in the corner between the wall and the wardrobe and my son Gustav added some high notes right in time before he went into his puberty vocal change. And so this was that.<\/p>\n

On its release the reactions to Simple EP were close to overwhelming. Not only was there lots of interest and very positive feedback, i was also asked by good friends if we should form a real band out of it. And here we are now with Mark Specht (Drums, founding member of Subterfuge), Christoph Scheider (Bass, former member of Klee, Clayton Farlow, Soap, Soccer) and Philipp Breuer (Lead Guitar, of Pale fame) and myself. With people sharing similar tastes and a musical vision an album full of songs was arranged in no time and recordings were started already at the second rehearsal. From first ideas to a longplayer (album drops in August) in a bit over half a year is an absolute record time in my personal musical story and the result still entails more of myself than any other release before.<\/p>\n

Aren’t three musical outlets (I have another postal indie electro band called Quent<\/em>, which had a break at the time too) enough i was asked. And the answer probably should have been a clear yes. Well, you wouldn’t be reading these lines if I had followed that advice. And hey, isn’t it the silly and superfluous that is the most fun?<\/p>\n

(Lars, May 2023)<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>

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Downloads (use right click)<\/h2>\n

Album Artwork 3000×3000<\/a>
\nTechnical Rider<\/a>
\nPhoto Band 1 Flowers<\/a> (Suzie Kerstgens)
\nPhoto Band 2 Flowers\u00a0<\/a>(Suzie Kerstgens)
\nPhoto Band 3 Hazy<\/a> (Suzie Kerstgens)
\nPhoto Band Vulcano<\/a> (Lars Schmidt)
\nPhoto Band Jungle<\/a> (Lars Schmidt)<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>

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