Sound Bite Radio

Sound Bite Radio treats genre as a suggestion. One hour it's footwork and UK garage, the next it's JPEGMAFIA snarling over blown-out bass, then a Caroline Polachek chorus out of nowhere. That whiplash is the selling point. As electronic radio in the United States goes, most stations pick a lane and stay there for a decade. This one refuses. The hip hop selections lean toward the experimental end, think clipping. and Denzel Curry rather than whatever's charting, and the pop cuts split between hyperpop and glossy radio fare. Some transitions land badly. A Chicago footwork track slammed against a…