Dirtnap / Wild Honey (2025)
It's been two years since we had a Radioactivity album from one of my favorite songwriters, Jeff Burke. I initially discovered Jeff through the second Marked Men album, On The Outside, when the company I worked for sent copies of it out to college radio stations in 2003. Ever since then I have been continuously wowed by pretty much everything he's been involved in.
Time Won't Bring Me Down is another excellent entry in the Jeff Burke catalog. It starts out like you'd hope, with fast paced, downstroke heavy, hook-filled, Marked Men-ish rippers. I've always said that Burke has this insane mastery of having the chord progression go in the least expected direction and that's on full display here, but as usual he keeps the songs on track with vocals that tie everything together perfectly.
Like their last album, there is a an obvious focus on including a good amount of slower song, and in particular the back half of this album has a good amount of them. While I think I'm always going to prefer the faster one, these showcase the range that Burke has when it comes to crafting impeccable songs that, at least for me, become instantly lodged into my subconscious, destined to play on an internal loop in my brain. It's so great to have a new Radioactivity record and I plan on spending some serious quality time with it as who knows when we'll get the next one. Hopefully it won't take ten more years.
Radioactivity - Time Won't Bring Me Down:
https://dirtnaprecords.bandcamp.com/album/radioactivity-time-wont-bring-me-down
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