Silent Radio presents this week’s unruly bundle of releases for your delectation.
Juniore Trois, Deux, Un
Flag-bearers for neo-sixties French-indie cool whose third album channels French classics through the hyperactive lens of B-52s New Wave and 60s American garage-rock.
Jade Hairpins Get Me The Good Stuff
Second album from Fucked Up’s Jonah Falco and Mike Haliechuk – “a poetic and absurd census of 20th century pop music” indebted to the theatrics of Sparks, the chorale-obsessed harmonies of Queen, the plasticisation of Italo disco, the swagger of Happy Mondays, and the brevity of ’70s punk and power pop.
Tindersticks Soft Tissue
Their 14th album proper is a fluid, questing take on what Tindersticks can be.
Kugelschriber Cheerleaders
An album of pop songs drawing on influences such as Prince, Abba, Field Music, Broadcast and The Pixies.
Lee Scratch Perry and Youth Spaceship to Mars
The record was seven years in the making and features vocalists including Carroll Thompson, Blue Pearl, Zoe Devlin, RDF, Boy George and Hollie Cook.
Nada Surf Moon Mirror
The NYC trio’s latest is full of bittersweet anthems full of soaring sing-along melodies and closing time melancholy.
Caleb Landry Jones Hey Gary, Hey Dawn
A digital deluxe edition with 11 new tracks added to the original release’s 13 songs to provide a more expansive soundscape.
We Are Winter’s Blue and Radiant Children No More Apocalypse Father
The new quartet of Mat Ball (BIG|BRAVE), Efrim Manuel Menuck (Godspeed You! Black Emperor, Thee Silver Mt. Zion), and Jonathan Downs and Patch One (both Ada). They present six modal lullabies drenched in seared distortion, slathered across striding electronic pulses.
The Go! Team Thunder Lightning Strike
20th anniversary edition with a bonus disc of Ian Patton’s original CDR versions.
Robyn Hitchcock 1967: Vacations in the Past
A selection of the (mostly) hit songs of that year, re-recorded acoustically. “I want to present these songs as they would have been written”, says Hitchcock: “Shorn of the state-of-1967 production that encased them on record”.
Jesus Lizard Rack
The first album in 20 years from the post-hardcore, pre-math rock titans.
Kandodo theendisinpsych
Simon Price of The Heads’ solo project – “primitive pieces of psychedelic tuneage+years of wasted time=43 minutes of headphone bliss.”
Deadletter Hysterical Strength
A record of exploratory art-punk that brews malevolent atmospheres, joining elastic basslines with knotty saxophones and poky guitar patterns to bring songs that navigate the painful landscape of bereavement, the lengths we’ll go to protect our loved ones, and the bliss of escape.
The Half-Cubes Pop Treasures
24 covers of underground pop classics spanning the whole history of the genre, many including guest shots from the original artists.
Trentemoller Dreamweaver
A slightly more psychedelic iteration of the dark wave and dreampop Trentemøller specialises in.
Albin Lee Meldau Discomforts
Swedish artist with a marriage of his major influences, from soul to reggae, blues to alt-rock
Snow Patrol The Forest Is The Path
While their eighth album is rooted in reflection, introspection and interrogation, it maintains their knack for anthemic melody.
Uzumaki waded
Debut album from a band that wear their 90s influence on their collective washed-out long-sleeve. Inspired by the likes of Teenage Fanclub, old school Weezer, Pulp, Blur, Sonic Youth and Sebadoh, the band have a fresh and energised take on some classic sounds.
Johnny Foreigner How To Be Hopeful
A loud righteous rock record about finding love and joy in the universe.
House of Protection Galore EP
The sound of the brute force of hardcore, the glitching pulses of electronica, the raw fury of punk and the forward-thinking intricacies of hip-hop and bass music, all blended together and set alight, in a head-mangling mix of unpredictability and spontaneity.
Lunar Vacation Everything Matters Everything’s Fire
Their latest effort is exploratory, a product of many hours shared experimenting in a living room together. Inspired by prolific shapeshifters like Yo La Tengo and Björk.
Julie My Anti-Aircraft Friend
LA band and art collective with their debut album.
The Mystery Lights Purgatory
An eclectic mix of psychedelia, punk, art rock, and surprisingly even a splash of country.
Moondaddy Lightwave Lightwave
Four tracks featuring Cara’s richly expressive low-register vocals blanketed by waves of ethereal textures, glistening electric guitars, and spare and precise drumming.
Floating Points Cascade
Devised as a follow-on from Crush that would allow him (and audiences) to experience Floating Points in its traditional form on a dancefloor once more: bursting with Buchla rhythms, glitching melodies bewitching a room full of heaving bodies.
Kaito Collection
Nine ambient, melodious tracks oscillating between deep techno, jazz-infused melodies, influences from the Detroit scene, and ethereal soundscapes.
The War on Drugs Live Drugs Again
Recorded on tour between February 2022 through December 2023 in America, the UK, Europe and Australia, Live Drugs Again follows 2020’s Live Drugs and represents The War On Drugs at their raw and righteous best.
Dame Area Toda la verdad sobre Dame Area (The Whole Truth about Dame Area)
They fuse industrial-tribal polyrhythms with minimalist synth basslines, drawing profound inspiration from avant-garde masters such as Esplendor Geometrico, Throbbing Gristle, Suicide, Einstürzende Neubauten, Can, Coil, Swans, Big Black, and Wolf Eyes.
Bonnie Trash My Love Remains the Same
A new EP from the darkened shoegaze/post-punk drone project led by twin sisters Emmalia and Sarafina Bortolon-Vettor.
Bill Leeb Model Kollapse
The debut solo album from the iconic Front Line Assembly / Delerium frontman.
TR/ST Performance
Synth pop psychodrama that seethes with dread, lust, reckoning, and abandon, backlit by the light pollution of a thousand dead end city streets.
Satan Songs in Crimson
Long-running heavy metal icons.
Chastity Chastity
A 13-track record about the things that have always run through Chastity’s records — struggle, death, despair, redemption, darkness, and light — but this time, the songs ascend to new depths of intensity and desperation, new heights of resolution and power.
Faust Blickwinkel
The album is a shapeshifter, at times commune friendly psychedelia, then grinding industrial, eerie ambient or driving motorik, but always refusing easy categorisation.
Paradise Cinema returning, dreams
A release that contains nods to Jon Hassell, Terry Riley, Don Cherry and Midori Takada as well as more contemporary electronic, ambient and non-western music and even draws inspiration from physics and science fiction.
Light Grey Nightm@res
The album showcases the band’s growth, experimenting with electronic sounds while staying true to their pop-punk roots.
Rockers Galore Vamos a la Playa
With its infectious fusion of old-school funk and brand-new spunk, this album cleverly blends roots, hip hop, reggae, rock, Haitian kompa music and Latin rhythms.
Tom Meighan The Reckoning
Former Kasabian frontman offers 11 songs that span from anthemic stadium-ready bangers ripe for the big-rooms, down to tender, touching moments filled with reflection.
The Meringues Pavlova’s Dog
A mixed gender, Canadian quartet that seamlessly blends elements of post-punk, alt-rock and new-wave
Lastelle Exist Vol 1 EP
Epic and impassioned compositions to really tug at the heartstrings.
Wolf Brigade Life Knife Death
Swedish hardcore punk icons
Sans Froid Hello, Boil Brain
Progressive heavy music boundary-pushers
Quireboys Wardour Street
Rock band with songs that will make you want to rock’n’roll, there are also songs from the heart, to make you laugh, love and cry.
Gurriers Come and See
Irish guitar quintet with a collection of razor-sharp progressive punk songs full of furious sucker punches.
Porches Shirt
Part angsty fantasy, part confessional melodrama – a rock album that oscillates between reality and make-believe to reflect both the innocence of suburban youth and the frayed reality of adulthood.
