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Most rock and roll bands have one particular sound, and they spend their careers trying either to refine it or run away from it (often losing themselves--what made them interesting--in the process). The Radar Bros. fall firmly in the former camp; they’re like the painter that works in the same style and with the same palette and using the same imagery for years on end. Warbly, lushly multi-tracked vocals sing lullaby lyrics of death and despair and heartbreak and the ironies inherent in the postmodern condition. Melodic, minor-keyed guitar lines snake in and out of slow-going, pleasant, Pink-Floyd-meets-Crazy-Horse tunes, while layers of strings and keyboards accompany the whole shebang sweetly, and slowly. The Radar Bros. have perfected a certain kind of moody, lay on your back and dream the world away kind of music, and it’s hard to fault them for not changing a gosh-darn thing on this, their fourth album. --Mike McGonigal