“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…”
Indie
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.
Ok so we have a lot to catch up on. Well more precisely, I got a whole load to show. So with no more a-fuss or ado, here’s a playlist and catch up of 2024 so far. The very best of submissions, Part 1.
“Later than planned I took myself to the tunes and right here are the highlights of the evening. To all the bands that I missed, I apologise. I’ll leave a few links to you in the notable mentions…”
“I got homework to do. I got acts to discover. I got a city that’s about to get noisy and a military-tight schedule to make… Welcome to Part 1 of Swansea Fringe….”
“the stars are where Tess Parks wants to take us. To a place made of lush sound and song that wraps reverb around every lingering piano note and separated, slowly strummed chord. It’s an ethereal shoegaze made of clarity and wash with a pulse that drifts lazy and aimless.”
Rats on the Run 