Radiator Hospital
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[Jan. 9] There's a lot of yearning on the first full-length album from West Philly's Radiator Hospital.
There’s a lot of yearning on Something Wild (Salinas), the first full-length album from West Philly’s Radiator Hospital. Yearning, pining, longing — that general feeling of having so many feelings that you don’t know what to do with them and you might just lock yourself in your bedroom and write some songs because, oh my God, you guys, just a lot is going on right now. Radiator Hospital singer/brainchild-conceiver Sam Cook-Parrott gets that. The songs on Something Wild definitely tap into the more irrational (and therefore, beautiful) end of being recklessly and maybe unrequitedly in love, as is seen on tracks like “Our Song” (“Sometimes I hear you crying alone in the shower/ But I don’t make a sound”) or “Your Boyfriend” (“Don’t tell the truth/ Don’t say if you love me too”). Lyrics like those are flanked by either bubblegum-’n’-high-tops pop-punk or Cook-Parrott’s lone acoustic guitar. He’s crying because whomever he loves won’t love him too; but you and I have been there, so why not sing along?
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