which wouldn't require a member that played bass guitar.' NME would rank Lesser Matters ninth on their list of the 50 best albums of 2004. According to their website, the band decided to use digital drum tracks and stated that for their second album they were 'taking a new direction. prior to the release of this album and Lisa Carlberg departed after the release of This Past Week EP. The band's debut album Lesser Matters (2003) was well received by the music press, scoring 10 out of 10 in the NME. Labrador Records heard them on the disc and signed them to their label.
sent recordings to music magazine Sonic, receiving a positive review and being featured on the free CD sampler that came with the magazine. In 2001, Larsson's then girlfriend Lisa Carlberg joined the group on bass, followed by Per Blomgren on drums and Daniel Tjäder on keyboards. Three years later, in 1998, Duncanson started making music again but now with Martin Larsson and they decided to adopt the same name.
However, Almered and Duncanson soon stopped playing music together, putting the outfit on hiatus. In 1995, schoolmates Elin Almered and Johan Duncanson started a band which they named after a gas-station-turned-radio-repair-shop called 'Radioavdelningen' ( Swedish for The Radio Department).
