Hello from the Radio Wasteland!

About Hello from the Radio Wasteland!

Fist pumping, hip shaking, swagger-inducing, and yes, completely gorgeous – Seattle Rock and Roll dynasty The Whore Moans have been slanging their tight, soulful brand of scuzz rock since 2005. The Whore Moans newest release on Mt. Fuji Records is titled “Hello from the Radio Wasteland!” Recorded in glorious analog by producer Johnny Sangster, (The Posies, Mud Honey, The Briefs,) the album moves the group into new and exciting territory. Refusing to be boring, the record is a meditation on the strange musical landscape one finds crackling on the midnight radio.

The songs on Wasteland move and twist like an expansive interstate, touching on Nuggets-era garage, Specter-style pop, and jean jacket adorned metal. Starting with a vaudevillian sales pitch for a cure-all serum in “Nerve Tonic!” and landing on a searing snapshot of the American landscape with “Here Comes America,” the album moves through themes of consumerism, comic books, love lost, love lived, and hard living. “Hello From the Radio Wasteland!” is an obsession with a continuously redefined pop culture. The Whore Moans new record is immediate and engaging, much like the culture that spawned it.

Some Press on Hello from the Radio Wasteland!:
“The best blistering-hot melting pot that’s been cooked up in recent history, combining soul, rock and roll, hardcore, garage, and punk into one sweeping blur of heavily bassed and wonderfully brash rock.” – The Stranger

“Eighties-hardcore stripped-throat vocals, the angular art-riff assault, with prominent treble-ized bass, of Mission of Burma. But the Steven Tyler-like jabber in “Wall of a Song” is an unexpected hoot, and for all of the end-of-days fury in “Fingers and Martyrs” and “Here Comes America’ (the latter is not a pretty sight), The Whore Moans are steadfast believers in loud-fast salvation, or what they call in one power-chord catapult, “The Holy Fucking Moment.” This album has plenty.” – David Fricke, Rolling Stone Magazine

“Punked-up garage rock ‘n roll swagger and a bag load of degenerate, soulful, sometimes sneering, searing scuzz and grungy energy from deepest Seattle. Shots at American popular culture and the bites of the alternatives to be found on late night radio. A brash mix of feisty Nuggets era garage and 70’s new wave punk.” – Organ Magazine

“The Whore Moans’ second release, Hello from the Radio Wasteland, is a more musically varied album than the 2007 debut Watch Out for this Thing. The Seattle quartet mixes politics, pop and even some prog into its already solid garage rock and soulful punk sound. While it may be a little less feral, it’s no less ferocious in its attack. It’s the glorious noise and raw, ragged energy from a collective radio wasteland with which the band is able to arm itself, and whether or not we’re ready, the revolution is at hand. From the opening assault of “Nerve Tonic”, a punishing, pounding, screamer of a sales pitch, right through to scathing summation of the country as seen through the window of the tour van in the anthemic “Here Comes America”, the Whore Moans never let up. The only moment of pause comes after the din of battle dies down, and we’re treated to a spare, sweet acoustic hidden track “Before the Frost”. – Popmatters.com