Radio Song

Andy Jans-Brown & Cameron Spike-Porter present “RADIO SONG”

‘Radio Song’, the third single and music video from the forthcoming album ‘Airport

Departure Lounge’, is out Friday 17th April 2026

Following the release of “Sunset or Sunrise,” Australian indie artists Andy Jans-Brown &

Cameron Spike-Porter return with “Radio Song”; an upbeat, indie pop-rock anthem that

dances on the fault line between digital sedation and human connection.

On the surface, it’s infectious and euphoric; a classic sing-a-long indie Pop-Rock foot

tapper, but underneath, it’s a lyrical protest song.

Inspired by Christopher Wylie’s exposé ‘Mindfck*’, which details how Cambridge

Analytica weaponised psychological profiling to isolate individuals, erode resilience, and

increase political susceptibility,

‘Radio Song’ draws inspiration from what Wylie termed asn“percepticide”; the engineered loss of perspective itself.

In this world of echo chambers and algorithmic reinforcement, Jans-Brown sings of “a new

kind of tyranny that robs me blind of perspective and leaves me all alone.”

And so, the question lingers, what happens when democracy becomes an algorithm?

“We’re drip-fed dopamine,” Jans-Brown sings, “caught in a ludic loop.”

Screens glow. War scrolls past cat videos. Protest sits beside parody and outrage becomes

entertainment.

“Radio Song” is its own rebellion, not through rage, but through rhythm. A refusal to

surrender joy. A refusal to let outrage colonise the nervous system.

“If you can isolate people and weaken their support systems, they become far more

susceptible to influence,” Wylie argues in Mindfck*, describing the psychological

architecture behind modern political manipulation.

Rather than succumb to that architecture, Jans-Brown proposes something radical:

presence.

“Yeah the music’s the way we feel, And we’re done with being naïve, cause we would

rather be the fool for what we love.”

In the broader arc of Airport Departure Lounge, an album exploring liminal spaces,

heartbreak, political unease, and the fluorescent purgatory of modern life “Radio Song”

feels like a turning point. It’s the moment a passenger looks up from the departure screen

and decides to step outside the terminal for a moment of fresh air.The track leans into jangling guitars and buoyant melodies reminiscent of R.E.M, Wilco

and The Pixies; pairing anxiety with lift. It doesn’t deny the smog, it simply insists on

oxygen.

At a time when misinformation spreads faster than empathy and extremist politics regain

mainstream traction, “Radio Song” offers neither denial nor despair.

It offers dance.

It offers chorus.

It offers a window seat view from above, where music itself is the perspective.

Out Now!