Emotionalpunk.com
Media Review
Music Quality: 2.0
Production: 7.0
Originality: 1.5
Tracklisting
2. Slow
3. Keep It Up
4. Sparkle Baby Shine
5. Punch Your Lights Out
“Disco is dead!” proclaimed the music world as the 1970s drew to a close, with rock on the rise throwing the last handful of dirt onto Disco’s grave. And you know what? THANK GOD. I can not think of a more tepid, irritating, nails-on-the-chalk board kind of music than disco. Sure, bands like LCD Soundsystem can implement some disco techniques, but they never stray into the Technicolor, dance-floor nightmare sound that is disco. Enter Danger Radio: the Dr. Frankensteins of the pop-punk genre, trying to give life to a genre that has passed on, fusing it with parts from other.
The results are horrifying. Their EP “Punch Your Lights Out” is one of the most misguided efforts to come out in some time. It tries to fuse the sharp, jangling guitar and bass lines of disco with pop-punk vocals and ethics. Unfortunately for them, the resulting sound doesn’t work at all. It’s irritating, monotonous, and boring. The closest thing to a decent song is “Sparkle Baby Shine,” which, despite a driving guitar line, is bogged down in the resurrected rhythms of a genre that deserved its demise.
Danger Radio, aside from the disco conceit, are an average pop-punk band, re-hashing the same “girl, what are you doing to me?” lyrics that have been around forever. The inclusion of new beats and sounds, trying to bring a groovy-70s vibe to their songs only serve to exacerbate the shortcomings of their songwriting. Danger Radio get stuck trying to make their music original and forget to make it listenable. If you see these guys on the Warped Tour this summer, walk in the other direction. Danger Radio make seventeen minutes feel like five hours, and if they ever want to have a lasting musical career, or be able to make an LP for that matter they need to drop the disco act, practice, write some new songs, and try again.