Essential New Music: Radian's "Distorted Rooms"
Distorted Rooms is the first Radian record in seven years. That may seem like a long time, even allowing for the fact that drummer Martin Brandlmayr, guitarist Martin Siewert and bassist John Norman all have other things going. But just a cursory listen to Distorted Rooms will tell you that the Viennese trio hasn’t just been sitting around. The album’s six tracks combine a complexity and simplicity in ways that don’t just fall together. Each note in an instrument’s progress has been subjected to different treatments or outright substitutions.
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