Radioactivity – Time Won’t Bring Me Down

Radioactivity are back! Recorded over a long period of time and released ten full years (!) after their last LP (Silent Kill, 2015), here is the eagerly awaited 3rd LP! Nobody was really worried about Radioactivity dropping the ball after all this time. Jeff Burke’s track record (The Marked Men, The Reds, The Potential Johns, Lost Balloons, etc etc) speaks for itself, and has for over 25 years at this point. It’s no exaggeration at all to say that Burke’s songwriting voice is one of the most distinctive, unique, and dare we say best of the 21st century so far. Still, Time Don’t Bring Me Down doesn’t just hold its own—it rips. With Mark Ryan (Marked Men, Mind Spiders, O-D-EX) and Daniel Fried + Gregory Rutherford (Bad Sports) in the lineup, these guys burn through eleven tracks in half an hour and leave nothing standing. The first two LPs sounded like what you would expect from a Burke project—tight, fast, and pure Denton adrenaline. Time Won’t Bring Me Down still has that DNA, but this isn’t just nostalgia. Radioactivity’s got their own thing now: Burke’s hooks still bite, but there’s more space, more mood, and the band’s locked-in chemistry means every hit lands harder. You get straight-up burners like “Time Won’t Bring Me Down” and “Why” that’ll knock your coffee out of your hand, but also heart-twisters like “Analog Ways” (one of our personal favorites, and probably the least Radioactivity-like song they’ve ever recorded) “Ignorance Is Bliss”, and “Shell” that slow the pace down considerably, and represent real progress and evolution in style and songwriting. Time Won’t Bring Me Down sees Radioactivity take their core sound and expand it outwards in all directions.