Honey Radar

Honey Radar started off in time-honored lo-fi fashion with Jason Henn recording short bursts of hooky indie rock on a four-track. After releasing numerous records in this style, he expanded to include more musicians. After hooking up with the <a href="spotify:search:label%3A%22What%27s+Your+Rupture%3F%22">What's Your Rupture?</a> label for two records (2016's Blank Cartoon and 2019's Ruby Puff of Dust), the band was positioned to take over from <a href="spotify:artist:4oV5EVJ0XFWsJKoOvdRPvl">Guided by Voices</a>, both in terms of amount of records and quality, should they ever retire.

Henn began recording songs in his Indiana bedroom in the mid-2000s, soon building up an impressive catalog of lo-fi guitar pop that sounded like a far less drunk <a href="spotify:artist:4oV5EVJ0XFWsJKoOvdRPvl">Guided by Voices</a> with some <a href="spotify:artist:22bE4uQ6baNwSHPVcDxLCe">Rolling Stones</a> and Midwestern weirdness mixed in. He soon began releasing CD-Rs, cassettes, and lathe-cut singles, with the more art project-style recordings going out under his name and the poppier selections as Honey Radar releases. Indiana-based <a href="spotify:search:label%3A%22Third+Uncle%22">Third Uncle</a> began releasing Honey Radar records, and in 2014, after Henn had relocated to Philadelphia, the label issued the first Honey Radar album, Chain Smoking on Easter. Though Henn had gathered together a band for live shows, the album was still a home-recorded solo project. More singles followed the album, including 2015's The Rabbit's Voice, which began the project's relationship with <a href="spotify:search:label%3A%22What%27s+Your+Rupture%3F%22">What's Your Rupture?</a> That influential label released the second Honey Radar album, Blank Cartoon, in May 2016. Along with Henn, members of the live band (Jesse Stober, Jordan Burgis, Armen Knox, Nathan Paul, and Mario Lopez) played on the album.

The band continued to release a prodigious amount of music during the next few years. Their fractured pop songs hit the shelves as singles and EPs courtesy of <a href="spotify:search:label%3A%22Third+Uncle%22">Third Uncle</a>, <a href="spotify:search:label%3A%22Chunklet+Industries%22">Chunklet Industries</a>, and It Takes Two, while the group self-released a CD-R collection of songs titled Hard-Panning the Nation. In June 2019, <a href="spotify:search:label%3A%22What%27s+Your+Rupture%3F%22">What's Your Rupture?</a> issued another album's worth of fragmented, lo-fi pop titled Ruby Puff of Dust. ~ Tim Sendra, Rovi