Growl

Radioactive Man hails from the United Kingdom and with him he brings a bag full of warped and ludicrous sounds formulating techno beats on his album, Growl. It seems the bulk of the tracks are a mixture of awkward sounds jam packed together that resemble a helicopter spinning out of control in the moments before it ultimately crashes. The album is predominantly too slow to allow the raving mad lunatics to get down and boogie to.

Growl unleashes an onslaught of random sounds that presumably fall into the realm of techno, but are mainly instrumentals. Very few tracks have vocals and when they do, they resemble that of the hideously untalented T-Pain, as the vocals are voiced through a synthesizer. It's not even a great hook when it happens.

Some of the tracks provide for certain moods that can be interpreted and put the listener in a different setting, but for the most part, it's hard to decipher what the intent is. It's not soothing, relaxing or entertaining in any sense, as it comes off as just plain random. Techno songs from past greats have provided great little hooks and something catchy in the beat for everyone to latch onto. That isn't the case here. Growl just seems like an orgy of rambunctiousness that molests the senses, leaving you disoriented.

To be fair, I'd rather watch a skilled musician perform a solo on bongos than listen to this garbage dump of ridiculous and awkward repetitive sounds. Anyone could flip some of these tracks together in no time at all. If you could get a seizure from listening to something, it would be from listening to Growl.