RADIATOR HOSPITAL - DISTORTING TIME

After more than fifteen years of Radiator Hospital, Sam Cook-Parrott wasn't interested in looking backward. Following 2023's Can't Make Any Promises, he stepped away from the full-band incarnation of the project and began imagining an entirely new way to make—and perform—his songs. What emerged is Distorting Time, a return to the home-recorded, four-track spirit that first defined Radiator Hospital, while pushing that approach further than ever before.

Originally considering leaving the Radiator Hospital name behind, Sam found new inspiration after assembling a live set built around backing tracks recorded to a four-track cassette recorder. "It was really fun and cool," he says. "This new side of Radiator Hospital was so exciting to me that a new record came out pretty easily."

Recorded primarily at home on four-track cassette, with additional work at Jeff Zeigler's Uniform Recording in Philadelphia, Distorting Time embraces the limitations of analog recording as a creative tool. Influenced by Young Marble Giants, Tall Dwarfs, and the recording techniques of Shoes, Sam layers guitars, bass, keyboards, vintage drum machines, and tape manipulation into thirteen songs that feel both unmistakably Radiator Hospital and unlike anything the project has released before.