Another hearty week of new releases. Here is Silent Radio’s summary.
Katy J Pearson Those Goodbyes
Songs which range from achy-hearted, string-laden confessionals to sleek, chic soundtracks for the small hours
The Waeve City Lights
The second album from Graham Coxon and Rose Elinor Dougall is a collection of 10 songs that illustrate the evolution of their collaborative musicianship and sees the band’s sound solidified into something bolder, more expansive and self-assured.
Joan As Police Woman Lemons, Limes and Orchids
The new album sees Joan venture deeper into her jazz influences with further affectations associated with electronic and ambient music.
Ibrahim Maalouf Trumpets of Michel Ange
It reflects Maalouf’s ongoing initiative to popularise the quarter-tone trumpet his father invented. Crafted with an additional fourth valve, the quarter tone trumpet enables artists to weave Middle Eastern and Western scales together in previously impossible ways.
Blossoms Gary
Their latest sees the Stockport band recording live in a room together to capture the energy of when five friends come together and decide to make music.
The Calamatix The Calamatix
California quartet that harnesses the joyful energy and uplifting sounds of Jamaican rocksteady and old school ska.
Manu Chao Viva Tu
The 13 new songs that make up Manu Chao’s upcoming album ‘Viva Tu’ are inspired by his travels, people’s daily lives and the current state of the world. Delivered in Spanish, French, Portuguese and English, notable collaborations include Willie Nelson on ‘Heaven’s Bad Day’ and French singer Laeti on ‘Tu Te Vas’.
Ibukun Sunday Harmony / Balance
A brooding, introspective take on Afro-ambient music.
Burr Oak Annabelle EP
Chicago-based singer/songwriter Savanna Dickhut began Burr Oak not as a band but as a personal outlet. She first picked up the guitar as an aid to express her deep-rooted feelings.
Tanukichan Circles EP
Five track EP. She joins forces with Franco Reid for the first time. This new partnership pushes Tanukichan into new sonic territory, the fuzzed-out guitars and 90s-eqsuqe vocal still front and centre.
Kanonenfieber Die Urkatastrophe
Death metal outfit with an album that translates as “Primal Catastrophe” and is dedicated to the 17million people who lost their lives in World War I.
Hauspoints Eel Feeling
Chorley band whose debut album is a beat-heavy rasp of songs are like a love letter to popular culture, finding beauty in the mundane minutiae, and celebrating the quirkiness of human existence.
Nelly Furtado 7
Celebratory global pop with a potent blend of vocal hooks, empowering lyrics in English and Spanish over soaring melodies, pulsing rhythms, and eclectic instrumentation
John Murry and Michael Timmins A Little Bit of Grace and Decay
A short of soundtrack to a documentary film about who John Murry was on the cusp of greatness after the release of his highly acclaimed album The Graceless Age (2013), when his world fell apart. Addicted to heroin and creatively exhausted, he washed up on the shores of Ireland, a broken man.
Johnny Marr & the Healers Boomslang
21st anniversary special edition featuring seven previously unreleased recordings
Little Bit Talk A Blue Streak EP
With little bit, Hannah Liuzzo (formerly of Lilith) has honed her inspirations, taking notes from the pop sounds of Charli XCX, Avril Lavigne and Michelle Branch and cutting those with the indie-rock diet she grew up on – that of Elliott Smith and Sufjan Stevens.
David C Clements The Garden
An 11-track alternative folk record featuring songs written with Iain Archer and Jacknife Lee.
Fidlar Surviving the Dream
The irreverent surf-punk band’s long-awaited fourth studio LP and first in over five years.
More Eaze Lacuna and parlor
A record anchored in the left-field chamber music and incidental recordings that have long accented More Eaze’s roving sound.
Sweet Full Circle
The final regular studio album from Andy Scott which moved on from glam rock in the 70s onto heavier territory
The Speed of Sound A Cornucopia: Victory
A celebration of unheard underground music and the counterculture itself – music made for the pleasure of making it (rather than for artless corporate entities).
The Calamatix The Calamatix
Self-titled debut album from reggae-rooted, punk-flavoured quartet.
Terry Gross Huge Improvement
Members of Trans Am offer up four mammoth slabs of driving rock.
Malcolm Pardon The Abyss
One half of Swedish duo Roll The Dice, Pardon’s second album took inspiration from the idea of being submerged under water.
Lice Third Time At The Beach
Shifting from lush piano balladry to crushing industrial, swampy experimental compositions, and triumphant rock freakouts, the album is also full of vocal manipulation, found sounds, and glitchy home recordings.
Alex Henry Foster A Measure of Shape and Sounds
It is made of several layers of guitar loops, reverberations, resonances, and oscillations juxtaposed together to create a sonic multi-directional contemplative maelstrom.
Sunset Rubdown Always Happy To Explode
Their first in 15 years. Initially a solo project by Spencer Krug, who also played in Wolf Parade and Frog Eyes, Sunset Rubdown transformed into a dynamic four-member band in the mid-2000s.
Katy Perry 143
Jam-packed with the kind of celebratory and provocative pop anthems fans have come to love, it’s an album with a lot of heart – and a lot of BPM.
Kaeto Intro
Eight track long mix tape written and produced by KAETO and Mathias Wang (aka Junkmail). Many of the songs on INTRO were written while the pair were in Seville, which Kaeto describes as “such an inspiring place to work and one of my favourite places on earth.”
Tolouse Low Trax Kiosque Versions
A compilation compiled by himself, featuring seven edits by friends and treasured artists. They renew some rare TLT tunes, as well as better known numbers.
Tanukichan Circles EP
Release that brings together Wisp’s dreamy heaviness to bear on Tanukichan’s more electronic-leaning and break beat-oriented composition.
St Lundi The Island
Its songs offer picture postcard moments of St. Lundi’s life so far, interspersed with short interludes which heighten its poignancy.
Bewitcher Spell Shock
An album that is full of apocalyptic, speed demon vibes, and imagery taken from the worst of current events that only get more apocalyptic as time goes by.
Charlotte Wessels The Obsession
An exploration of fear and liberation, as well as spellbinding melancholia and dark, catchy elements meeting progressive and heavier soundscapes.
Clinic Stars Only Hinting
The full-length debut by Detroit duo Giovanna Lenski and Christian Molik aka Clinic Stars both refines and redefines their pitch-perfect fusion of downer-pop balladry and featherweight shoegaze.
