Artrocker magazine have given us a 4/5 review for our debut album.
You can pre-order the album here: http://bit.ly/TTRheartache
‘Since forming in 2008 Tape The Radio have, according to the press release, spent their time ‘lovingly crafting each track, tending their record and lavishing it with attention’. Hmm. Press releases do talk bollocks sometimes, don’t they?
That aside, ‘Heartache and Fear’ does sound like an album that’s taken a considerable amount of time and effort to get right. One of those albums where you keep going back to the mixing desk, endlessly making changes so minute that only you could possibly notice.
The band’s sound is a form of rock usually found in the eighties; I haven’t seen any of Tape The Radio’s videos, but I’m pretty sure they’ll be playing on a cliff top looking windswept in denim jackets.
Listening to ‘Heartache and Fear’ brought memories of The Cure, The Icicle Works and early U2 flooding back, but there’re traces of White Lies and The Killers here too. The end result of those influences and the band’s attention to detail is an album that has a sense of urgency, especially in the vocals, and a sound of epic proportions. Pretty much any of the ten tracks here could be picked for a single, though my personal highlights are ‘Our Love Is a Broken Heart’ and the adrenaline-pumping self titled opener.’
- Mark Cousens
