Bronze Radio Return

Bronze Radio Return

 Up on & Over

exhibit these reckless tendencies to the nth degree on their fourth studio release, and there’s an enviable sense of abandon in their choosing to create pieces that treat even the most mundane of occurrences as being worthy of celebration. Take the excellent “Mister Mister”, for instance, which I’m fairly certain contains one of the summer’s best choruses (“Hey mister mister you can have my days but you better leave my nights ALOOO-OOONE!!!” sings vocalist Chris Henderson), or “Melting in My Icebox” – a true out-and-out anthem if there ever was one – which aims for the feeling of driving down a wide, sunbaked freeway with windswept hair and the roof down, and succeeds with flying colours. Elsewhere, the after-effects of the band’s decision to retire to a farm in the foothills of the Appalachian Mountains in Virginia to write their fourth studio release is not lost as well, with songs like “Sylvan” and “World Spin” slipping neatly into the back-end of Bronze Radio Return’s oeuvre of country-tinged folk-pop.