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    HM Magazine #109/Radial Angel
    Radial Angel — Summer Fade cover

    Radial Angel

    Summer Fade

    (2004)

    Reviewed by Doug Van Pelt

    DiscogsApple Music
    Label independentHM Magazine #109September/October 2004
    alternative rockmodern rockpost-grunge

    Sometimes a band doesn't belong here. Radial Angel, for instance - they were a "Pick of the Litter" years ago before they were signed. But sometimes labels shake things up, lay employees off and drop bands. Thus Radial Angel is no longer on Squint Records (which doesn't seem to exist anymore in the Word Distribution system). Now this Bush-clone (the band, not the presidential candidate) is making music again like it mattered - as if the listener needed to feel what they feel. In a crowded world of modern rock radio (Staind, Nickelback, Kutless), this band won't win fans amongst the indie rock snobs that projectile vomit at the mention of said bands, but Jared Taber and company still manage to rock clean and hard.

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