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This Past Week
Pop · 2005 · 5 tracks

This Past Week

The Radio Dept.

Seventeen minutes of tape-hissed dream pop. Submerged vocals and brittle drum machines create a perfect soundtrack for solitary, rainy city walks.

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It sounds like a polaroid of a rainy city street coming to life.

A gentle, pervasive fog of nostalgia and quiet urban loneliness.

This Past Week · vs · The Radio Dept.
Rainy Day+1.1σ

Rainy Day saturates this record notably more than the artist's norm.

Tracklist · 5 Tracks
01
This Past Week
5:17
02
Deliverance
3:35
03
I Don’t Like It Like This
4:13
04
Värnhem
0:53
05
Let Me Have This
3:40
Moments Worth Waiting For
The way the title track builds its hazy wall of sound over five minutes, feeling like a slow-motion emotional collapse.
The sudden, stark transition into the brief instrumental Värnhem, acting as a cold palate cleanser before the final track.
The brittle, almost skeletal drum machine beat on Deliverance that anchors the swirling, ethereal guitar layers.
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