Radiator Hospital announces sixth album Distorting Time on Lame O Records

Radiator Hospital, the indie rock band originally from Grand Rapids but based in Philadelphia for quite some time now, has announced their sixth studio album. Distorting Time arrives on August 14 via Lame O Records, marking a new chapter for the band: all their previous work came out on Salinas Records, so the move to a different label represents a clear break with the past.

The album follows 2023's Can't Make Any Promises and features thirteen tracks. Lead single Wall Between Us has been shared as a first taste, accompanied by a music video directed by Ali Donohue. It is a quintessential lo fi track, driven by abrasive guitar chords and the weathered vocal style of frontman Sam Cook Parrott. The song calls to mind a combination of Saintseneca and the early work of Sebadoh.

Cook Parrott shares in a press release that he seriously considered taking the project in an entirely different direction and starting something new. Eventually something shifted in his thinking: "I was strongly considering going in a completely different direction and starting a different sounding project. Instead a switch flipped and I could see how all my new ideas could fit on the continuum of Radiator Hospital. It's still the project I've been doing for almost half my life. I can see the connection between this and my earliest work, while also knowing I never could have made this record in any other time of my life than now."

The tracklist for Distorting Time includes songs such as Can You See The Future?, Hellhound, Love Park Serenade, and the title track, which closes out the record. Where the band once released new material multiple times a year, the pace has slowed down in recent years, but with this album Radiator Hospital proves they are still very much active and continuing to grow within their own sound.