The Color of Industry
Cooking up yet another darling sound to tear you away from your TV dinner, Radiation City delivers the calmed echoes of amplifier tubes and secret gramophones, the soothing, sonic smile of a warbling Wurlitzer, while precisely sparse heart-throbbing drums bounce from the analogue souls of our “Next Portland Obsession.” (Sound On The Sound)
Listen for the miniature time-warp symphonies blooming most warmly in “The Hands That Take You”, their upcoming debut album on burgeoning Portland label Apes Tapes. Nostalgic sincerity bound by subtly piercing lyrics floats alongside Elisabeth Ellison’s soothing siren-lullaby, only to be swept away by the blazing caress of Cameron Spies’s telecaster chorus, the boom and buzz of Matt Rafferty’s dynamic low end, and Randy Bemrose’s incisively complementing beats.
Born from the memory-dreams of yesterparents’ vinyl, there’s something aged about Radiation City that will take you away on nostalgia wiser than your years while thoughtfully reminiscing in something you’ve yet to hear. This ineffable aesthetic has put countless fans under it’s spell, fans who have seen (in it’s scant 6 months) Radiation City grow to be heralded as “one of Portland’s more polished and promising young acts…” (Willamette Week)
