KillRadio Raised On Whipped Cream. Release Date : September 7, 2004. Label: Sony. Rating: Andy doesn't dig rating stuff. KillRadio has a full album! After listening their four-song EP straight into the ground, there's finally more to keep on repeat. I really like this band. My interest in politics only extends so far - I know there's a lot of things that freak me out and no one's really getting the full-on truth from anywhere, but I don't think I'm nearly educated about it enough to be really, really opinionated about it. But hearing a band with this much passion about politics (from American, to Music Industry)... I mean, you can feel it in every note. Including the liner notes, where they dedicate the album to "music that is terrible." The first four tracks are the same as the EP, but they're mildly reworked. The screams are emphasised a little differently, the guitar riffs jaunt in slightly altered places. The guartet stands out for me because I'm so used to them. But I was very pleased to find myself just as into most of the rest of the tracks on the collection. EVerything's loud and jumpy, with heavy-hitting drums and those dang vocals. Brandon Jordan has such a rough-hewn, I-really-mean-it quality to his voice. Between his scathing lyrics, he interjects "Euh!" and "Hey!" noises. And then here and there he'll let loose with a freaky, raging scream, just to show you he cares. Everything is anthemic, but it's protest-song anthemic, rather than the arena-anthemic that's more common. Stunningly, there's a few songs that sound deceptively happy - perhaps mirroring the naivety of many of their fellow civilians upon whom much of the album's topics touch? "Where Go We" and "Burning The Water Brown" are among these peppy tunes... it sounds like a classroom of children skipping down a street, but then you listen to what's being said and kinda want to just crawl into a hole until the world just goes away. Jordan leaps between quicksnappyfast lyrics in the vein of a Rage Against The Machine, and slow, deliberate, rolling growls. "Classroom Blues" brings us an interesting blend of reggae and loud snarly rock. The whole album is obnoxious and evil-sounding and desperate and angry and impassioned. If only everyone were this into what they're doing. Song of choice : "Freedom?" for it's chant-along solidarity deal. And I still love "Pull Out" - which you can hear on the CordMag Audio Player. -Andy Scheffler Elsewhere KillRadio website Published : May, 2005.