Cleveland, OH-based alt/psych-pop artists Radderall and Muzzy Fossa share their latest fuzzed-out, tropical cut “Planted” and its matching music video. Their collaborative concept album The Club Is Open is out now via Wax Mage Records. With the new project, the Radderall live outfit will bring to the stage the project’s expansive, surreal, synthy soundscapes that blur the line between irony and sincerity.
With spacious production infused with an early 2000s R&B flair and a tropical feel, “Planted” is an ode to self-love and being one with the Earth and environment. Grounded and tender, Radderall’s Zach Taneyhill explains, “The message in the track is from the Earth, letting someone know how disappointed it is in how the earth is treated. The metaphor here is that the earth is you, we are all one with everything, the song is about realizing how disappointed you are in how you treat yourself, or let others treat you. This results in a need to return to your roots and center.”
On the video, shot in Cleveland’s old Masonic Temple built in the 1920s, Taneyhill shares, “The video shows a sort of self reckoning, a Lynchian plane where illusion collapses and the main characters from the record watch idealized versions of themselves perform, before they themselves transform into plants. It’s a symbolization of atonement and renewal. The track and video represent individual growth over a short period of time, but can apply to the cycle of life and death on a larger scale.”
The Club Is Open is a conceptual journey built around a story of duality, and the search for a mythical venue called The Club: two characters navigating the tension between chasing short-term dopamine—through vanity, fleeting love, or ego—and pursuing something meaningful, like real love, honest connections, friendship, and self-discovery. Utilizing the naming convention R.A.M. (Radderall & Muzzy Fossa), the album frames a narrative of resilience and growth—symbolizing resurrection, transformation, and the ability to find renewal after destruction.
Radderall (Zach Taneyhill) & Muzzy Fossa (Nathan Hunt)’s work is theatrical and immersive yet deeply human, blending analog charm, R&B-inflected grooves, psych-pop storytelling, and vintage synth textures into a sound that is strange, surreal, and emotionally resonant. As Taneyhill describes it, the album is “a world unto itself—a place we built so we could get lost and maybe find a little meaning in the process.”
