“Sonic scrapbooks, audio montage, bedroom cuttings of riot girl and post-punk in all of their old and new iterations; this is the sound of black and white photocopied fanzines with frayed edges and still-hanging staples…”
Category Archive: Music Reviews
It was only a pause. Just as promised. Some kind of semi-normal service will now be resumed.
Tonight a million and one plus countless more words and tributes will be written about the passing of Brian Wilson. THE Brian Wilson. The Barbara Annin’ Good Vibratin’ Sloop John B-Line to Kokomo Surfin’ sweethearts who melted in song the world over. Here’s me sending you and pitching something different….
Throw in some a big hits of industrial EDM playthings and some cactus jack flamenco, add some surfabilly moonshine with a dash of 90’s rave, and a fine spice of wonder, nu-shoegaze and garage and even some folksome shots of grandeur and we got ourselves the last ROTR Radio of the year.
A little earlier this month ROTR had the pleasure of previewing one of this year’s finest and most frantic of records. Well, needless to say we wanted more. And damn we got it with a Q and A and get to know…
“We don’t always get to hear the mind of the creator. And this is that mind with little or nothing more and it’s beguiling…”
“All inhabitants and tourists have been warned. On November 29th of our year 2024, there’s a stomp to end all stomps here in Big Mountain County and you can either stay indoors and shy away, or get involved one communal purge of gluttony…”
So now we’re caught up and the cool songs are copulatin’, here’s the very best of October ’24. Right here’s the finest of submissions and send-ins.
“If this EP is a test and a tease of just-scratched harder and darker to come, then more please! And if not, play it again and play it louder…”
“What we sign up to upon listening is a fast heady mix of 60’s garage lo-fi, B-movie connotations, test tube concoctions, sci-fi, DIY-fi, what-the-hell-is-this-fi, distortion and light horror macabre…”
Rats on the Run 