The Radio Field – Air and Sunlight

Two years after their debut album THE RADIO FIELD are back with #2, absolutely keeping track with their guitar-heavy indie pop that was nursed with nothing but Jangle, Shoegaze, Powerpop, air and sunlight.

As always the band invited quite a number of guests to contribute to this album: Besides their new member of the live setting Hanne-Lotta Blum (Solo D&B artist, sings on Apogee), who also contributes on trumpet and french horn (A Mess), you will enjoy vocals by Suzie Kerstgens (Klee, sings on bei Hey You), Federica Tassano again (Phantom Handshakes, Brooklyn, sings on Sellout, reappearing after Other One on album #1), Hannin Nasirat (Attic Ocean, sings on What It Takes), Crystin Fawn (solo Artist and the sea & the sun, sings on Ride With Me und Mimi Welldirty (sings on Same, returning after She Needs Therapy on the first record) and Thomas Baumhoff (Subterfuge, The Baumhoff Explosives, Oktober Club, sings on It’s Alright).

What started as the lockdown homerecording project of Lars from Subterfuge now became a proper band with Mark Specht (first Subterfuge drummer), Christoph Schneider (Bass –  Clayton Farlow, Klee, Soap/Soccer) and Philipp Breuer (Guitar – Pale) joining in. Their debut album DON’TS AND DOS will be realeased (LP, CD, digital) on Aug 25 via Subjangle (SA) and Less Records (DE), distributed by Cargo Records.

(Full band bio below)

Air and Sunlight (Full Album Pre-Listen)

LER0054 (digital)
LER0055 (CD)
Releasedate 2025-09-19
Label Code 93047
Artwork by Markus Berg

Listen per track (on Soundcloud) here:
SONG BY SONG

4 A Mess

5 Hey You
(feat. Suzie Kerstgens / Klee)

6 Of Dragons and Souls

7 What It Takes
(feat. Hanni Nasirat / Attic Ocean

8 Ride With Me
(feat. Crystin)

9 Sun Dial
(Herr Wade Cover)

10 Same
(feat. Mimi Welldirty)

Live Dates

01.07.2025 Hamburg, Hafenbahnhof

25.09.2025 Berlin, Posh Teckel

01.10.2025  Düsseldorf, ZAKK

2025

13.10.2025 Mülheim adR, SOL Kulturbar

14.10.2025 Köln, Subway

…. (more currently tbc will follow)

Band Bio (long version)

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 had just recently reformed and our album Dots. 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 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.

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 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. All 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.

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.

Aren’t three musical outlets (I have another postal indie electro band called Quent, 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?

(Lars, May 2023)