Radon Reviews: Hollerado “Record in a Bag”
This band’s name is Hollerado. Their latest EP is called Margaritaville 2: The Reckoning. Are they fun and energetic? Stupid question. Let’s take a look at their debut album Record in a Bag. It’s forty minutes worth of strung out, skinny energy indie rock, and it makes me want to kick things at a strength surpassed in magnitude only by the size of the toothy snarl on my face. It’s silly, it’s bouncy, but perhaps most impressively, it is chock full of technical skill.After the craziness that is the first five minutes of the album (including the entirety of “Hollerado Land” and the catchy-as-hell “Do the Doot Da Doot Doo”’s first few minutes), I found myself slackjawed and grinning, leaning back in my chair at the confident guitar work in the second track’s solo and then the barrage of hooks that comprises the third, “Juliette”, a track that calls back to the more competent and powerful work of Third Eye Blind. The rest of the album follows the same pace and attitude, and didn’t really disappoint me at any point along the way. Every song has the same kind of indie sound built over tried-and-true rock, and breaks down into some amazing arrangement that makes everything that follows pop out so much more vividly. If you like to hear raw, powerful skill on a guitar or a bass that doesn’t make up part of a screeching, thumping metal song, you absolutely owe it to yourself to start listening to Hollerado post haste.
