\t\t\t\tPortland, Oregon is home to plenty of stunning indie rock bands, including the young but prolific Radiation City. Though they only formed in 2010, the band has already released three albums. Synesthetica <\/i>is their first on Polyvinyl Records, which is also home to plenty of other stunning indie rock.<\/p>\n
\u201cOil Show\u201d starts off the album with a sleek, dance rock feel where pretty female vocals are met with a spacey and R&B feel. \u201cJuicy\u201d follows and is a slow-burner with an \u201880s feel, where multiple vocals help make this an even more lush affair, while \u201cButter\u201d gets breathy and intimate, with an underlying soulfulness that is rarely approached in indie rock circles. <\/p>\n
At the middle of the disc is when guitarist and vocalist Cameron Spies makes his first grand entrance on the microphone; he and Lizzy Ellison take turns between soft cooing and his rougher vocals on \u201cCome And Go.\u201d Interestingly enough, the louder instrumentation is backed with jazz solos here. \u201cMilky White,\u201d one of the disc\u2019s singles, is easily an album highlight, illustrating Radiation City\u2019s glam side with grooves, beats, and a penchant for synth and organ fun; meanwhile, that synth sound is furthered in the sci-fi and hook friendly \u201cSugar Broom.\u201d <\/p>\n
Near the end, \u201cSeparate\u201d is both the longest track and the most eclectic, often sounding like dozens of ideas mashed into one atmospheric and hazy, acoustic focused version of dream pop. The album closes with Ellison\u2019s soaring pipes on the genre-defying \u201cFancy Cherries.\u201d <\/p>\n
The band nearly dissolved before this album was made, due to the driving couple of the band, Cameron Spies and Lizzy Ellison, nearly breaking up. Incredibly, amid all the turmoil going on within the band, they were able to birth both a sensual and aesthetically pleasing album that opens an entirely new door on their expansive sound. Thankfully, for fans of sophisticated, unpredictable, and catchy indie rock meets dream pop, Radiation City appears to have a new lease on life.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":89,"featured_media":32874,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"tags":[],"artist":[9895],"rating":[5615],"class_list":["post-44647","review","type-review","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","artist-radiation-city","rating-rating-b"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/review\/44647","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/review"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/review"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/89"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=44647"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/review\/44647\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/32874"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44647"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44647"},{"taxonomy":"artist","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/artist?post=44647"},{"taxonomy":"rating","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rating?post=44647"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}