From the first chaotic strums on Lose, Badly, Philly indie rock band Booze Radly grabs hold and never lets go. The album is an electrifying tour de force of pain, isolation, and the liberation found in the eye of the hurricane and say, “fuck it.” Tearing up stages since 2013, Booze Radly brings jaded insight to their meditations on everything that’s wrong.
The EP kicks off with the raucous “White Guy Emo,” a tongue-in-cheek condemnation of the emo scene and the band’s participation in it. It’s a rollicking groove fit for your favorite South Jersey punk band, but suggests there’s more than meets the eye. This lightheartedness — if you can call it that — is punctured by “Unlearning Sadness,” a painful articulation of a strained father-child relationship. As if to compensate, the latter two songs on the EP, “Admission of Infirmity” and “Nothing to Lose” are blistering barrages of sound and id bordering on hardcore. Lose, Badly spends a lot of time knock down, but never out, and that fighting spirit is what you need on a bad day, week, or year.
Thanks so much for covering the EP! We get knocked down, but we get up again, you’re never gonna keep us down!