My Dear Radium

1. Your Softest Leather

2. Marie Curie

3. Password

4. Chemical Sue

5. Like A Knife

6. Aristotle

7. Plans For Earth

8. Patient Little Secret

9. Never Ever

10. The Pleasure of Sin without Sin

Editorial Reviews

About the Artist
You're asking about The Black Spoons? How about the aching, melodic pulse of early Bowie and The Police. The ultra-fine grind of Stax/Volt. The libretto of Cohen and Waits. The insistent pulse of the Pixies. And the social acumen of Crooked Fingers. Oh, and toss in Confucius, Foucault, and Post-Colonial Studies for good measure (that's what happens when your lead singer is a Ph.D. student in Chinese History at Columbia). Maybe after that you could throw in some interest in evolutionary theory, Richard Lazarus, and object relations (that would be from the bassist's pursuit of an MA in Forensic Psychology). And let's not forget the near subliminal jeopardy that Ruben's drumming might land you in (that's sort of from studying at the Drummers Collective, but mostly the result of just being a bad, bad man).

Tracks:

Your Softest Leather
Marie Curie
Password
Chemical Sue
Like A Knife
Aristotle
Plans For Earth
Patient Little Secret
Never Ever
The Pleasure of Sin without Sin

Customer Reviews:

"Thats Why My Love is Like a Knife...".......2005-04-18

I bought this album from The Black Spoons on Myspace.com about 3 months ago. I search for them on amazon, to see if anyone knows about them, but nothing ever comes up. Today, i actually clicked on popular music halfway down the list to the left, and finally, My Dear Radium was discovered. I can't even begin to tell you how good this album is. Three intelligent people producing an album covering topics of god knows what, until of course the lyrics are carefully read and studied. Its so good it is mindboggling, i can't stop listening to each and every song on the album. The guitar is absolutely amazing throughout the entire album, and highlights include every single song. If you ever stumble upon this album, or read this review, do yourself a favor and purchase this album. I'm POSITIVE that you will fall in love with it. And to the Black Spoons (if you ever read this) 'Your Softest Leather' is amazing. "We don't deserve to be so pretty but we are, its like they dropped us from the sky one world too far." That could quite possibly be the most beautiful piece of writing i have ever read. Much credit to you guys for making a masterpiece, and please, keep in touch through myspace.

intelligent and sexy.......2005-01-27

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.

Hauntingly beautiful.......2005-01-25

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
http://selloutmag.com

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