“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…”
Music Review
It was only a pause. Just as promised. Some kind of semi-normal service will now be resumed.
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…
“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…”
“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…”
“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…”
“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.”
“Make the speakers work as hard as they absolutely have to at the high volume that Death Cult deserve…”
“A myriad of ideas all burnt down to a crisp with a negligent sci-fi brevity. So compact are the sounds and the hits of impatience that it’s every post-apocalyptic film in one trailer…”
Rats on the Run 