The Tragic Radicals Drop an Experimental Rock Record

A single release from The Tragic Radicals comes through with the progressive and addictive tonality that blends elements of grunge, alt-rock, indie rock, and more all with a vivacious kind of energy that puts you there in the moment.

The Year of The Radical album wastes very little time pulling you into its world. The first track "CellService Scream" brings a very particular aesthetic to the table with grungy guitar tones, some great progressions, and unique time signatures that start to give you some of the staples that you can expect on the record itself.

You can hear jam and even jazz influences coming to the table here and it all has a way of feeling alive and breathing.

This is one of my favorite aspects of the record. The energy level is outstanding.

It feels almost like these guys recorded everything live on the floor and all the members of the band were just feeding off each other the entire time.

This is something that made it special and it creates an atmosphere that you get sucked into and don't really want to leave to be honest.

The deeper into the album you get the more influences start showing face. Songs like "Fuckin' Wierdos" come straight in with a heavier hand giving you a post hardcore feel blended with that Ggrunge tone and it's more driving.

The record spans a juicy 13 tracks and to really get an understanding of what the album has to offer, it should be listened to in full.

Checking out one or two tracks from this record may give you a little bit of a feel but it will not give you the full spectrum of what the album has to offer as a whole.

This is an instrumental record that blends rock genres along with others together so that it creates its own aesthetic and this is part of why you get so addicted to it.

There's a lot of surprises around the corners and by the time you get to the third or fourth track yes, you can hear some staples but, you don't really know what to expect Next. You begin to expect the unexpected.

This to me was completely refreshing as it doesn't really happen often.

I definitely love those heavier, grungier songs like "Romanian Noodles", which encompasses all of the best parts of what this band delivers. The augmented sort of progressive guitar sections, the heavier rock elements, and the intense drumming.

These songs strangely fall together like puzzle pieces and it's something that hit me a certain way.

I love a record that you can listen to and immediately know that band is going to be awesome and a live performance setting.

Even if I'm mistaken about the whole live on the floor aspect, listening to the record makes you want to go see them live in your face.

The funny thing about this is that I have an affection for two piece bands. I happen to fall upon bands with two players in it and end up loving what I'm hearing almost every time.

Although I got pulled into this record really quickly, I did not realize it was only two members until much later.

But it just goes to show you, maybe there's something about having a band with just two members that pushes things further.

Maybe it pushes things further because they feel they need to to make up for missing members.

Either way, this is really an amazing album and keeps you on your toes, utilizes intricate and inventive guitar parts and drumming that not only adds drive to the record, but brings that liveliness to the table.

This was a damn near perfect blend of color and edginess if I've ever heard it and again, you have to listen to this record from beginning to end to really experience everything that it offers.

I would even suggest listening to this record with headphones on so you can really soak in all the cool parts.

There's a lot of surprising changes, progressions, and songwriting attributes that are outside the box and this is part of what I love about it.

Definitely take a deep dive into this record when you can and remember where you heard it first.

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