There’s a Belvedere-esque quality to ‘The Big Noise’ that I like. When the band are balls to the wall punk rock, as they are on opener ‘Family Fortunes’, they sound slick, melodic and powerful and I can see them appealing to a lot of people, on both sides of the pond. The guitar work is extremely impressive throughout; the opening riff to ‘My Legacy’ sounds really, really big. Vocally the band impress throughout too. My only complaint would be that when the band decide to scream their way through songs, ‘O Deejay God’ being the worst culprit, they lose a bit of their own identity and sound like a lot of other bands. For me it’s unnecessary and detracts from the other songs and qualities Radicus have. They’re clearly underrated and perhaps would do better if they came from So-Cal and released this in about 1998. But if you like bands like Bigwig and the classic skate-punk bands from a decade ago, this is great stuff.
