Ranked Amongst Top 10 Local Albums by the Detroit MetroTimes
author: UVR Fan
The Detroit MetroTimes Review:
http://www2.metrotimes.com/music/story.asp?id=13563
Ultraviolet Radio, now relocated to California from Detroit, recently returned to the Motor City in February 2012 to preview new material and a new album to be released later in the year.
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Ear Candy (Dec. 2008)
author: Amanda Van Keuren
It makes sense that the opening track on Detroit-based Ultraviolet Radio’s latest release is called “The Experiment,” as the whole album seems like one. Walking Into the Light has many different sounds and identities, and the man behind most of them, James McConnell, no doubt has talent. The strongest track, “The Schematics of Love,” sounds like something Peter Murphy’s been hiding under his bed since the '90s.
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Our critics pick the best in music, 2008 - TOP 10
author: Bill Holdship - Metro Times music editor
10. Ultraviolet Radio
Walking into the Light — Self-released
Former Go guitarist James McConnell offers up a highly eclectic but always rockin' mix of (almost) one-man-band tunes
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Deafened By The Light
author: Maxine Richmond
"Certainly not what I'd expected from the former guitarist of Detroit-based garage rock stalwarts The GO. Walking Into The Light sounds like James McConnell holed up in a room armed with a guitar, synthesizer, and the collected discographies of Gary Neuman, Ultravox, Love and Rockets, and dare I say, the ol' Mozzer himself (check out his vocal stylings on 'So Sorry' if you don't believe me).
The resulting album showcases a wide variety of elements mined from McConnell's influences, despite its relatively short length (8 tracks). From the synth-driven opener, The Experiment, which depicts a dystopian vision of automated alienation, to the atmospheric instrumental 'Infinity' that ends the record on a note of hopefulness tinged with melancholy, listening to Walking Into the Light will remind you of the mix tape your gothic girlfriend made you in junior high (or the tape you made for yourself 'cuz all the boys at your school were total groders and lamoes, and it was actually 10th grade and not junior high, but I digress).
What I'm getting at here is that Ultraviolet Radio's WITL unlocks that highly impassioned, dramatic, quasi-cynical but really sensitively romantic teenage angst that most people have managed to stuff away into the deepest crevices of their minds. And after having been layered over with the resurgences of garage rock, mods vs. rockers (again!!!), psychedelic, and 70s easy-listening, it's a part of myself that I, for one, am ready to get in touch with again."
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