Bronze Radio Return/Howard

Tapping into the open-landscape feel of today’s rootsy Americana rock ‘n’ roll, Bronze Radio Return has been slowly carving up the national festie circuit with uplifting instrumentation and soaring vocals. Take their last album, for instance: 2015’s Light Me Up. At times smoky in tone, elsewhere starry-eyed, the songs on that album come together to form a compelling road trip of an album. Bronze Radio Return’s nom de plume points to their desire to travel back into the past, to hit the great freeway of time and deliver unto listeners a sepia-tinged trip across America. “Build a Stage,” to use an example, deliberately constructs a multi-layered pop framework, supported fully by singer Chris Henderson’s delicate phrasings. If you’ve been swept up in the current crop of upper-bill indie hits (the Lord Hurons of the world, etc.), then scope out these guys along the way. (Sandy)