biographical info
Retro Radio takes the raw guitar sound and unhinged emotion of grunge and sets it to a beat that gets to you until you can’t help but dance. It’s simply the only answer.
Brother and sister Sam and Nora write songs that challenge you to look
away, songs that have been brewing inside them since they were kids playing in the dirty Winnipeg snow. Later on, as both bounced around
Canada, they’d send each other songs through the mail, always with the promise of some future project bubbling under the surface. 2008 found the siblings relatively settled in Toronto and in that city they began to sort out their sound.
Harsh, but still kind of romantic, Nora’s
words meet Sam’s rocketship guitars to make a Retro Radio show so airless and stifling it threatens to bowl you over.Add to that the unrelenting beat of rhythm section Justin Jones and Tristan O'Reilly
and you’ve got your party, right there.
Retro Radio’s sound is both broken and unbreakable, gentle and hard, familiar yet un. You’ll think you know them but you won’t.
lineup
Nora Decter Vocals
Sam Decter Guitars
Justin Jones Drums