Radiator Hospital is an outlet for the highly romantic and often noisy punk-bred pop songs of Michigan songwriter Sam Cook-Parrott. Inspired as much by the home-recording aesthetic and acoustic guitar twee punk of the K Records roster as by the more voluminous sects of full-band power pop, the first Radiator Hospital cassette materialized in 2010; Cook-Parrott recorded all the instruments himself. By the time he moved to Philadelphia, signed with Salinas Records, and issued Radiator Hospital's official full-length debut, Something Wild in 2013, he had recording assistance from friends in the Philly scene and had put together a band. The group continued to mix stripped-down guitar songs with more vitalized, full-band arrangements, putting out albums of fuzzy and angularly melodic songs like 2023's Can't Make Any Promises.