
The Radio Dept. are known, and rightfully so, as sad bastards. But on "Heaven's On Fire," the second track released from their delayed-like-Lil Wayne Clinging to a Scheme , finds the unrepentant shoegazers kicking up their heels with a Jens Lekman-style party jam. "Heaven's On Fire" is all major 7th chords, toy keyboards and a love that might not be unrequited for once: "When I look at you, Heaven's on fire." As long as it's not their, um, sex. Clinging 's burnin' love arrives, the band claims , on March April 21 via Labrador Records. [...]