My Dear Radium

The Black Spoons | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (January 14, 2011)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Particle Music
• ASIN: B00031TXIG
• Also Available in: Audio CD  |  MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,041,072 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

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5.0 out of 5 stars Give me your Softest Leather, July 20, 2007

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SSH "Groovie Buff" (Twin Cities) - See all my reviews

This review is from: My Dear Radium (Audio CD)

I picked this song up awhile back, and I've been in love with The Black Spoons ever since. Too bad not many people know about these guys. They rock.

5.0 out of 5 stars intelligent and sexy, January 27, 2005

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M. Khademi - See all my reviews
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This review is from: My Dear Radium (Audio CD)

smart and sensitive, the album is a well mixed cocktail of angst, sex and chemistry class. I don't know if Marie Curie is proud, but I'm sure she is smiling and bobbing her head.

5.0 out of 5 stars Hauntingly beautiful, January 25, 2005

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Mullaney (SF) - See all my reviews

This review is from: My Dear Radium (Audio CD)

Lately, many rock bands have taken to naming themselves after something of a color - we now have The White Stripes and The Black Keys gracing international stages - and, of course, black is the darkest color of them all. But while the mood of The Black Spoons mood is, indeed, sinister, their outlook is far from bleak.

Breaking onto the New York scene with their debut CD, My Dear Radium, the band is taut, but unrestrained. The romantically tinged opening guitar on "Marie Curie" gives way to a hook-laden melodic triumph that is carried throughout the album on songs like "Chemical Sue" and "The Pleasure of Sin Without Sin". Tunes like "Password" and "Patient Little Secret" are instantly memorable, yet never clichéd, with a sultry low-end tinge like early Led Zeppelin, but a mysterious modernity as compelling as Interpol.

Lyrically, My Dear Radium is a concept album steeped in break-up bitterness, attuned to the theme of chemistry and the various elements that make up our universe. But its distinctly intellectual approach and discreetly eerie elegance, carried out by Tom Sean's softly wailing vocals, never undermine the emotional intensity of heartache this overwhelmingly harsh and hauntingly beautiful.

A. Koledin

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