After a six-year break, Robert Francis finds a silver lining in the devastating L.A. wildfires of early 2025, channeling the disaster into new music. Recording with soot-damaged analog synths donated by his sister, Francis has woven new textures into his indie-folk sound and the result is unlike anything he’s made before.
After a six-year break, Robert Francis finds a silver lining in the devastating L.A. wildfires of early 2025, channeling the disaster into new music. Recording with soot-damaged analog synths donated by his sister, Francis has woven new textures into his indie-folk sound and the result is unlike anything he’s made before.
Over their eighteen years as a band, Jim Putnam’s Los Angeles based collective Radar Brothers proved to be a model of consistency and melancholic, sun-baked comfort. Defying conventional, perpetual myths that artists must consciously reinvent themselves, a deep dive retrospective at the band’s working class trajectory reveals a singular path on the perennial edge of a larger, opportunistic breakthrough.
Over their eighteen years as a band, Jim Putnam’s Los Angeles based collective Radar Brothers proved to be a model of consistency and melancholic, sun-baked comfort. Defying conventional, perpetual myths that artists must consciously reinvent themselves, a deep dive retrospective at the band’s working class trajectory reveals a singular path on the perennial edge of a larger, opportunistic breakthrough.
