Silent Radio’s guide to the week’s new releases.
Benefits Constant Noise
The band take a different approach to the in-your-face polemics of their debut. Recalibrated as a two-piece featuring founding members Kingsley Hall and Robbie Major. The album is still angry, the band is still angry, but rather than regurgitate what they’ve already done, it sees Kinglsey deliver his stream of consciousness style vocals on the frustrations of modern life over bass-heavy, 90s dance inflected rhythms and subtle industrial undercurrents.
Desire Games People Play
Set against Johnny Jewel’s signature cinematic curtain, the record guides players through a shadowy dance floor where strategy & surrender blur.
Brian D’Addario Till The Morning
Solo debut from one half of Lemon Twigs is a set of richly melodic folk, rock and pop.
The Horrors Night Life
The release marks the beginning of a new era for the band, drawing their recent industrial experimentation together with The Horrors’ signature, motoring rhythms.
Sports Team These Days
Their third album boasts some of the band’s most dynamic musical performances to date.
Floodlights Underneath
Alt-rock band who have recently opened for Pavement, The Killers and Black Midi.
Gnod & White Hills Drop Out III
A third collaboration between titans of exploratory rock.
Greer Big Smile
Southern Californian indie rock four piece whose album develops the theme of the sting of isolation.
Buster Shuffle Together
They channel their signature blend of punk and ska to tackle the frustrations and absurdities of modern life, with biting lyrics that echo the anger and exasperation of our times.
Greentea Peng Tell Dem It’s Sunny
With her signature honeyed vocals, Greentea Peng builds smoky soundscapes and spiritual anthems, lacing her music with genre-spanning influences across everything from dub, reggae, jazz, contemporary hip-hop and psychedelic rock.
James Arthur Pisces
His sixth album continues Arthur’s exploration of vulnerability, mental health, and self-acceptance, but with a fresh, more experimental sound.
Noisepicker The Earth Will Swallow the Sun
Orange Goblin’s Harry Armstrong with drummer Kieran Murphy. The record is loud and abrasive. They pay homage to the genres which made them fall in love with music in the first place – doom, punk and blues – and bring it all together in a hearty and heavy concoction that is all their own.
more ease & claire rousay no floor
Eschewing the auto-tune inflected pop-psychedelia and found sounds of their previous collaborations, no floor is collage music as pastoral melancholia, a lush tour into their own version of Americana.
My Morning Jacket is
Tenth album of their restlessly inventive yet nuanced form of psych-rock.
Swami John Reis Time To Let You Down
A savage blast of junk shoppe punk with breakneck tempos and dense structures.
Glazyhaze Sonic
Their second album features cascading guitar lines, ethereal vocals, and an intense background
Phoebe Green The Container EP
Manchester artist whose EP bears the influence of listening to a lot of Imogen Heap, St Vincent, Caroline Rose, Charli XCX and Chappell Roan
Nick Storring Mirante
Toronto composer with a sweeping, rhythmic ninth album which pays homage to Brazil, includes field recordings and traditional instrumentation.
Lola Kirke Trailblazer
A blend of country, rock and storytelling
Katla Scandinavian Pain
Danish doom band delivers an unrelenting blend of raw emotion, gritty riffs, and subterranean sonic battery.
Phil Cook Appalachia Borealis
A collection of deeply moving piano meditations produced by Bon Iver’s Justin Vernon and inspired by bird songs.
Cross Record Crush Me
Vocals, guitars, and keyboards float above, as drums and upright bass (often bowed) lurch beneath. Crush Me has the effect of a spell being cast, with songs balancing heaviness and levity.
Utena Kobayashi & Motion Graphics Glossolalia
The EP explores a delicate strain of ambient pop, its nuanced contours reflecting Williams’ unique ability to wield production technology in a way that feels not just poignant, but deeply human.
Miss Velvet Triptych
EP from artist who presents profoundly soulful rock and gorgeous fashionista fantasy as swaggering, escapist empowerment.
Ebba Åsman When You Know
A smoky and melancholic 10-track cocktail of jazz, alternative R&B, indie, Hip-Hop and ambient sonics that experiments at every turn.
Ghost Hounds Almost Home
The country roots rock band grapples with the multifaceted concept of “home”- what it means to build a life, find emotional grounding, and navigate the complex terrain of love and loss.
Idiogram Reunion of Broken Parts
A band who mix post-prog, rock, electronic, ambient and classical sounds.
Various Artists Krautrock Eruption – An Introduction to German Electronic Music 1970-1980
Double LP released as an accompaniment to the English Language version of the book published by Ventil Verlag on the same day and features the likes of Cluster, Faust and Mobius & Plank.
Cradle of Filth The Screaming of the Valkyries
A new era of misadventure, celebrating massive melancholic melody, blackened thrash, and apocalyptic existential dread with a grinning smattering of unbridled revelry.
Golem Mecanique Siamo tutti in pericolo
The nom de plume of French multi-instrumentalist composer Karen Jebane who works within the fringes of contemporary folk (aka La Novia community), microtonal, and early modern spheres, touching upon the ashes and fibres of back metal and the DNA of gothic music, literature, sorcery, and most of all—poetry.
