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Teach Me to Forget
Pop · 2017 · 6 tracks · 30m

Teach Me to Forget

The Radio Dept.

Extended dance-floor iterations of melancholic indie pop. Hazy synths meet steady drum machine pulses for a lonely, rhythmic night in the city.

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It's like a dance party where everyone is too sad to dance but too restless to leave.

A rhythmic, pulsing sadness that feels both distant and deeply intimate.

Teach Me to Forget · vs · The Radio Dept.
Love Lost+1.2σ

The writing leans notably further into love lost than the rest of the catalogue.

Tracklist · 6 Tracks · 30m
01
Teach Me to Forget (12″ version)
6:09
02
Just So
3:40
03
You’re Not in Love
6:36
04
We Got Game (Henning Fürst remix)
4:38
05
Swedish Guns (Mythologen remix)
4:28
06
Teach Me to Forget (Kim Ki O rework)
4:31
Moments Worth Waiting For
The way the title track's 12-inch version stretches the central hook into a hypnotic, rhythmic loop that feels like a trance.
The sudden clarity of the synth line in 'Just So' that cuts through the usual Radio Dept. haze with surprising brightness.
The transformation of 'Swedish Guns' into a skeletal, dub-inflected groove during the Mythologen remix.
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