‘Turn On Your Radio’ is the new single taken from former Revelino guitarist Bren Berry’s forthcoming debut solo album, In Hope Our Stars Align.
The song is another melodic love letter to the power of music and to “things that can’t be sold” featuring Berry’s trademark layers of guitars and infectious vocal hooks and harmonies. It’s also defined by a reflective and honest lyricism delivered with empathy and tenderness.
“When I was kid, I spent a lot of time in The Liberties with my Aunt Norrie who was a massive Elvis Presley fan and introduced me to the magic of radio,” reflected Berry. “I have always loved discovering great music on the radio, listening to so many great DJ’s especially at night.”
‘Turn on your Radio’ is also a metaphor, a protest song, an SOS “Ground control to Major Tom” styled broadcast to a world in trouble and running out of road. It’s a call to tune in to ourselves and the world around us as we continue to sleep-walk into climate and social disasters everywhere.
“I wrote it as we were resurfacing after lockdown and think it captures the sense of isolation, loss and alienation that we were all feeling, like an earthbound ‘Space Oddity’ stuck in cruise control,” Bery reflected.
The song was produced by Berry & Gavin Glass in Orphan Studios and mixed and mastered by Daniel James Goodwin at The Isokon, Virginia. Berry is joined by Glass on guitars, bass and synthesisers, Binzer Brennan on drums and Gavin Fox on backing vocals.
