{"product_id":"radio_retaliation","title":"Radio Retaliation","description":"\u003cp\u003eThievery Corporation’s Radio Retaliation is the Washington, D.C. duo’s fifth studio album, released in 2008. It takes the group’s familiar downtempo, dub, trip-hop, lounge, and global-fusion sound and makes its political purpose more explicit. Rob Garza and Eric Hilton build the record from deep basslines, reggae-informed rhythms, sitar, Latin percussion, cinematic strings, and electronic textures, creating music that is relaxed and danceable but charged with unease. Recorded in D.C. during 2007–08, the album responds to war, inequality, political repression, and economic instability, positioning its multilingual, international cast as part of a broader vision of solidarity.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe 15-track original edition moves through a wide range of collaborators and styles: Sleepy Wonder brings Jamaican dancehall energy to “Sound the Alarm” and the title track; Anoushka Shankar’s sitar colors “Mandala”; Femi Kuti delivers a pointed vocal on “Vampires”; and Seu Jorge appears on “Hare Krsna.” Other highlights include the Spanish-language protest song “El Pueblo Unido,” the Middle Eastern-inflected “(The Forgotten People),” D.C. go-go legend Chuck Brown’s “The Numbers Game,” and the languid, French-flavored “La Femme Parallel” and “Sweet Tides,” both featuring LouLou Ghelichkhani. The result is a cosmopolitan, politically charged electronic album that uses groove and atmosphere as its primary language of protest—less confrontational in volume than in message, but firmly rooted in Thievery Corporation’s belief that dance music can also carry social critique.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Record Store","offers":[{"title":"CD \/ Album","offer_id":53920172245306,"sku":"39703","price":19.99,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":false},{"title":"Vinyl \/ 2LP","offer_id":53920172278074,"sku":"39704","price":44.99,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/2041\/0682\/files\/Screenshot_2026-08-17_at_2.36.44_PM.jpeg?v=1786992467","url":"https:\/\/recordstore.ca\/products\/radio_retaliation","provider":"Record Store","version":"1.0","type":"link"}