Radio Love is the debut album from Player Piano. Singles include "Kings & Queens" and "My Name Will Be a Myth". The album is a joyous combination of propulsive grooves and big hooks that has drawn comparisons to everyone from David Bowie to Sly and the Family Stone.
Radio Love carries traces of every stage of Jeremy Radway's musical and personal journey. Indianapolis, Indiana was also home to the writer Kurt Vonnegut, after whose first novel Player Piano is named. And something of Vonnegut’s political vision and indomitable humanism seeps into Player Piano's approach. You can hear it in the world weary, yet emphatic vocals that move effortlessly from Stephen Malkmus understatement to impassioned howl; you can feel it in lyrics like, "the early morning ghostly streets, In our heads were projection screens, and in our mouths were broken beats".
Louder Than War: "This opening single (Radio Love) sets the bar incredibly high, with a hook laden chorus and an incessant groove it's one of those tracks that sticks."
Clash Magazine: "New album Radio Love drops on July 1, with Clash able to premiere the supremely intelligent funk-pop banger "Kings & Queens". Rooted in that chugging, Talking Heads style bass, the choppy guitars and laid back rhythm recall Metronomy's more direct moments. The whole package, though, sounds utterly Player Piano."
Performers
Und3rgr0und
Devon Ashley: Drums
Jeremy Radway: Vocals, Bass, Guitar, Guitar Synth, Piano, Nord Stage, Virtual String Machine, Engineering
Ryan Koch: Additional Engineering
Baby Gets Down
Jeremy Radway: Vocals, Drums, Bass, Piano, Nord Stage, Saxophone, Engineering
Everyone Knows
Jeremy Radway: Vocals, Drums, Bass, Guitar, Guitar Synth, Piano, Jen SX1000, Virtual String Machine, Engineering
Even If I Didn’t
Jeremy Radway: Vocals, Drums, Bass, Guitar, Piano, Virtual String Machine, Engineering
Going Home
Ed Grimshaw: Drums
Jeremy Radway: Vocals, Bass, Acoustic and Electric Guitar, Piano, Virtual String Machine, Engineering
My Name Will Be A Myth
Ed Grimshaw: Drums
Jeremy Radway: Vocals, Bass, Guitar, Nord Stage, M-Tron, FunkBox, Engineering
Kings And Queens
Ed Grimshaw: Drums
Jeremy Radway: Vocals, Bass, Guitar, Wurlitzer 200A, Nord Stage, Virtual String Machine, Engineering
Sleeping Silver Horses
Ed Grimshaw: Drums
Jeremy Radway: Vocals, Bass, Acoustic and Electric Guitars, Nord Stage, Virtual String Machine, Engineering
Radio Love
Devon Ashley: Backing Vocals
Kate Lamont: Backing Vocals
Jeremy Radway: Vocals, Drums, Guitar, Wurlitzer 200A, Vacuum Synth, Engineering
Beneath The Underdog
Ed Grimshaw: Drums
George Hider: Claps, Additional Engineering
Jeremy Radway: Vocals, Bass, Guitar, Wurlitzer 200A, Virtual String Machine, Claps, Saxophone, Engineering
I Can Feel You
Ed Grimshaw: Drums
George Hider: Bass
Rebecca Jade: Backing Vocals
Jeremy Radway: Vocals, Piano, Virtual String Machine, Engineering
Suite Pour Les Enfants De L’Est
Sarah Sexton: Violin
Emma Parker: Violin
Becky Jones: Viola
Sarah McMahon: Cello
Jeremy Radway: Celeste, Engineering
Walthamstow Market: Itself
Production
Mixed by Jeremy Radway at the Premises Studios, London, and Radio Love Studios, London.
Mastered by Mike Bridavsky at Russian Recording, Bloomington, Indiana
Packaging
Artwork by Christian Ward
