RadolescentPrehab

Since emerging from the sandy shores of their hometown on the Gold Coast, four-piece Radolescent have spent some time touring the Australian east coast which has captivated fans beyond Queensland. With their raucous grunge-punk energy and contagious melodies, they’ve become an outfit to keep a close eye on.

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Last Friday, the quartet released their debut record, Prehab, which we spent the weekend chewing up like a bone within a hungry woofer’s drooling mouth. It’s not quite as graphic as that although it surely is pretty satisfying to hungry ears.

Charging into the opener with stringy guitar licks and a stampeding rhythm section, Retina amplifies a wall of distorted bass riffs around the optimistic chants of “future so bright” chants throughout.

Taking us on a harmonious journey to The Other Side, we’re lead by a political dulcet and bending guitar melodies that take us to the protests of their beachy hometown. With the verses escalating into passionate choruses, the track glides through the speakers like a riptide to a superb wave; subtly, powerfully and mesmerising.

Radolescent’s single 406 sits in the album as a trifecta and requires just as much applause following the track’s opening bars. Named after one of the bus routes that the boy’s used to frequent, the lyrics take us into the mind hive of frontman Isaac Atkinson who sings with fervour.

Within this showcase, power chords charge the band’s backline with elevating choruses that ring like anthems, giving up something for our hungry generation.

If you’re over the age of 20, nostalgia might kick in with Locked Up (Intro) revisiting the interview that party boy Corey Worthington gave after his infamous house party back in 2008. An ode to partying and teenage debauchery, Locked Up is a raucous track filled with treble and tell-tales that give a middle finger to the men in blue and a thumb’s up to party animals.

Tucked In is a tune with verses that send balloons floating to the choruses; before they’re popped on the crash cymbal and deflated into a bed of rubber and treble.

Waking us back up with the charging Speed Based, Radolescent solidify their signature sound with a gallivanting backline and charging guitars. Water Demon takes us back to their local shores with “salt in my eyes” and twangy notes that catapult into the upheaval of choruses and passionate chants.

It makes sense to close an album with a track that enhances the same passion that it opened with and The Ballad of Lynn Howl does exactly that. A wooing regret becomes disguised within electric wails that echo through the speakers. The heavy distortion and whispering of “I think I can,” elevates the choruses into spinning circles of passion, guitar pedalling and drumming patterns that’ll have you short of breath during their next show.

Within this showcase, power chords charge the band’s backline with elevating choruses that ring like anthems, giving up something for our hungry generation.

STANDOUT TRACKS: Locked Up, Water Demon, The Ballad of Lynn Howl
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