THE RADIO DEPT. - CLINGING TO A SCHEME

The inspiration for Radio Dept’s third album comes from frontman Johan Duncanson. Following is an excerpt from an interview with Johan:

Your cover art fits the music in an abstract way. How do you comes up with the covers – do you know right away when you see what you want?

Johan: Sometimes I’ve been going through my parents old photos and I’ve found something – like the Pet Grief cover, for instance. My dad’s from Scotland, during a vacation in 1984 when I was 5, he took that photo in a park in Galashiels. the men in kilts they’re friends of his and the children are their kids.

It’s not always old photos, the Clinging To A Scheme, well that’s an old one – it’s from a documentary about the Vietnam War. I like it because it’s a really dreamy picture. do you remember the David EP cover? – two people wrestling, very gay. I see the Clinging cover as a full-circling, sequel maybe, to the David cover because it has quite extreme homoerotic undertones.

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