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"...Fresno's paragons of nonchalance as art."
--San Francisco Bay Guardian
"Stunts never reaches Pavement’s iconic detachment or AF’s dramatic heights, but shooting high and landing in between has made for a promising debut."
--inland empire weekly
"Well, this is surprising. I listen to a lot of indie rock that's self-consciously weird or hipsterish, and Rademacher toe the line."
--readjunk.com
"I haven't heard anything this deranged in a while, and I think I like it a lot. And, of course, when you calculate your songs to sound insane, you're the sanest eggs in the basket. Just so you know."
--Aiding & Abetting
"...a delightful mélange of blues and country..."
--www.fresnoundercurrent.net
"...potential to break into the big time."
--Billboard
"Fresno's underground sensation Rademacher have made a name for themselves as the musical equivalent of Jackie Chan."
--CMJ news
"They're from Fresno, god help them. The best thing for them to do is get famous, and get the hell out..."
--Fallen Not Broken
"The fertile San Joaquin Valley of California not only produces some tasty California agricultural products, it's also birthed some good indie rock..."
--RGJ.com
"Eines steht für mich fest: Rademacher machen Musik bei welcher man betrunken werden möchte."
--Klick! Klack! Boom!
"Though the licks and cadences from its valley elders are impossible to miss, the band still creates a brutally contemporary sound, and its onstage panache recently led Billboard magazine to recognize its "potential to break into the big time.""
-- SF Weekly
"It's also great when you're able to understand the lyrics ... and realize in that moment that they're not just good, they're right. Simply put, Rademacher make excellent music, and you should all be very, very excited for their first full-length ..."
-- Love The Music Reviews
"Friends of Earlimart, influenced by Pavement and Grandaddy, reminiscent of the Walkmen: all good things that apply to Rademacher..."
-- Seattlest
"...pretty, dusky, head-swayable songs built from chewy changes, with a light trace of twang and some real musicianship ... the latter carefully tousled just so, to avoid overselling it."
-- News and Review
"Sosa's urgent, trembling voice, paired with dense keys and brooding guitar, is pretty and none too subtle. It's also wonderfully imperfect ... Go hear it for yourself."
-- Salt Lake City Weekly
"Rademacher have just created their best work to date."
--Inflight At Night
"Putting Fresno back on the map."
--Little Radio
"The Fresno pop/rock band Rademacher lives by these terms, which usually have more to do with an indefatigably independent ethic, a sense of local loyalty ... and a loose and celebratory spirit ..."
--Times-Standard
"...their songs often begin in ridiculous lyrical fiddle-faddle but twist and turn with a carnival barker’s logic towards their inexorable choral conclusion, one usually couched in some kind of undisputable point about love or death or whatevahs."
--Radio Free Silverlake
"Ringing guitars pull the songs along as vocalist Malcolm Sosa sings of troubled relationships, but not in a depressing way. What do they sound like? Just a bit like the Talking Heads or maybe a less-dark White Stripes, but like the best bands they mainly sound like themselves."
--North Coast Journal
"... Pavement-meets-the Walkmen syncopation ..."
--Flavorpill
"...there is serious potential for Rademacher to ... become something I really can't live without."
--Swoon
"...rings with urgent psychedelia..."
--Coolfer
"...spiraling melodies ... recalling Canadian contemporaries Wolf Parade and Stars..."
--Las Vegas Weekly
"...sloppy, organic and refreshingly unhip."
--Las Vegas City Life
"...don't think this is a cry-into-your-merlot type of band. Rademacher's talent and depth will get you out of your seat..."
--AZ Daily Sun
"...breezy, playful indie pop ... expressed with ebullience, lifted by sunny melodies and carnival cabaret waltzes/barroom singalongs ..."
--SF Weekly
"...conjure up Karen O, Julian Casablancas, and Tom Waits all happily coexisting, swinging on a porch swing in the sun or sliding down a slide, whatever. Got 'em all floating around in your head? 'Kay, you can open your eyes now. Open your ears too, and go out and hear Rademacher."
--San Francisco Bay Guardian
"...chaotic and eerily compelling..."
-- PDX Magazine
The following are from reviews of our Ice Age EP:
"Reminiscent of Pavement, Flaming Lips and The Palace Brothers, the band's sound is organic and alternately sparse and orchestral..."
-- Mesh Magazine
Blog-y buzz about our Ice Age EP:
"...reminds me of when I first heard Pavement. It's fantasically beautiful..."
--mystery and misery
"...an acoustic carnival full of tempered guitar twang, crashing cymbals, and reedy organ."
--Sixeyes
"...enjoyable sinisterness..."
--My Old Kentucky Blog
"...rockig trotz Walzertakt mit Schweineorgel - mit einem trunken-moralisierenden Kabarett-Ton vor."
--Klausenerplatz
The following are from reviews of our debut EP:
"The vocals waver on the edge of some psychological illness."
-- Evil Sponge
"...reverb, stormy lyrics, and acoustic/electric guitar ... enhance their shadowy disposition."
--Amplifer Magazine
"...loose, confident arrangements, intelligent lyrics and ballsy vocals."
--Shake Your Fist
"The relative isolation of the Central Valley has allowed the young ones of Rademacher to develop their own take on indie rock that is intense, melodic, and original ..."
--3Hive
"...perfect accompaniment for a threat-level-orange train ride."
--Berkeley Place
"...what they bring to the quirky-indie genre is a Californian warmth and assurance..."
--The Mag
"It's almost as if Radiohead decided to go into the garage and cover a few Interpol songs."
--Mish Mash Music Reviews
"... sounds like what might happen if you locked yourself in your bedroom with an ounce of weed and Beck's back catalog..."
--Foxy Digitalis
"Rademacher's debut EP ... generates a buzzing and creepy atmosphere around a clipped lead vocal; a vocal that loosens the reins a tad from time to time."
--Torontoist.com
"...a good ep debut...[Rademacher] can play with different sounds and yet never sound like they are just trying to cross genres or are straying away too far from a central sound that makes the band what they are."
--NoFi Magazine
"...has this STEVEN MALKMUS cleverness and sound to it."
--Future Sounds