Radio Wars, by The Cradle

Radio Wars

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1.	Lights Off 03:26	buy track
2.	Tell Me What You Want 02:12	buy track
3.	Ha Ha Ha! 02:02	buy track
4.	Black River Side 04:22	buy track
5.	My Right Side 03:16	buy track
6.	American Spirit 02:53	buy track
7.	I Went In and You Came Out 01:47	buy track
8.	Radio Wars 03:48	buy track
9.	Let's Clean Up 01:54	buy track
10.	City Life 03:31	buy track
11.	Numb Life 03:41	buy track
12.	I Love That Music 02:26	buy track
13.	It's Not Related 05:42	buy track
14.	What's in Between 02:34	buy track
15.	I Love the World I'm In 02:45	buy track

about

Of all the celebrated home recording artists that haunt the pages of Bandcamp and the basements of the DIY touring circuit, few have had an output as eclectic, enigmatic, and consistent as The Cradle's Paco Cathcart. With content ranging from poetry over sound collage experiments to lush acoustic ballads to beat-driven noise, Cathcart has 40+ releases on Bandcamp, not including the limited edition tour tapes that never made it online. Through this extraordinarily diverse discography and their extensive self-funded touring, they have cultivated a loyal cult following across fans of many genres. Their latest effort, "Radio Wars", exists at an intersection of many of Cathcart's musical approaches, while also being perhaps their most accessible LP so far.

In a departure from The Cradle's more lo-fi works, "Radio Wars" bounces from track to track with a polished exuberance as Cathcart delivers some of their catchiest music to date. Pumping with auto-tuned nursery rhyme hooks and densely-programmed drum machine beats, the album boasts a sonic palette that owes as much to the production of DJ Rashad and the erratic vocal approach of Playboi Carti as it does to Cathcart's more familiar Dub and Gamelan influences. It's a musical world that draws you in quickly and leaves you deeply immersed throughout its 15 tracks.

As with previous releases, Cathcart's lyrics celebrate and reflect on the profundity of day-to-day city life experiences. The words are delivered through deceptively simple refrains that often mask challenging subject matter. Radio Wars was written and recorded in NYC in the lead up to and during the COVID-19 pandemic, a time which included the run up to the electoral defeat of a fascist president, historic protests against police abuse across the country, as well as the early months of the pandemic, when NYC was at the center of the outbreak. Social and political dissonance, alluded to in the album's title, was at a high, and that air of contradiction can be heard throughout, bleeding into moments that feel intimate and reflective. Coupled with bold production choices and feverish energy throughout, "Radio Wars," is a Cradle album of and for the times.

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released September 23, 2022

All songs recorded by Paco Cathcart Winter /Spring 2020 at 235 Troy Ave, Brooklyn, NY. Harmonica on "I Love That Music" by the late Ras Yo Yo, may he rest in peace. "My Right Side" features a sample from Efisio Melis' "Fiuda Bagadia." Mastering by Andrea Schiavelli. Art and layout by Bill Cathcart and Paco Cathcart.

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