As the clocks go back this weekend, that allows an extra hour for catching up with new releases. Here is the Silent Radio guide.
Khana Bierbood Monolam
Thai band who share a love for the western psychedelic music of the 60’s-70’s. As they began writing songs they found a likeness in their sound and the Thai Funk, rock’n’roll imbued Luk Thung and traditional Lao Molam-inspired music styles of those eras.
Chuck Prophet & ¿Qiensave? Wake the Dead
Prophet teams up with Cumbia group, ¿Qiensave?, for a record that has flashes of rock and roll, punk, surf, and soul, all filtered through the streets of San Francisco.
Tess Parks Pomegranate
Singer-songwriter produces her most ambitious and cinematic music. Drawing on psychedelic elements in a way that sounds decidedly fresh, the dreamlike atmospheres feel oddly nostalgic and modern at the same time.
Pixies The Night the Zombies Came
Their new collection of songs take inspiration from Druidism, apocalyptic shopping malls, mediaeval themed restaurants, 12th century poetic form, surf rock, gargoyles, bog people, and the distinctive dry drum sound of 1970s era Fleetwood Mac.
Pom Pom Squad Mirror Starts Moving Without Me
A second album that feels out new sonic directions confidently – as influenced by Billie Eilish, Beyonce and FKA twigs as it is peers in Mannequin Pussy and Speedy Ortiz.
One True Pairing Endless Rain
Second solo album from Tom Fleming of Wild Beasts shaped by the backgrounds in traditional music, classical and noise rock of its players.
Anthony Moore Home of the Demo
It unpacks ten tracks from what we might otherwise call a lost era: subtitled “from the dawn of bedsit recording, on the cusp of the analogue-to-digital shift” and sounding nearer to DIY than we’d hear from any of your fancy modern kit!
Soccer Mommy Evergreen
As much as ‘Evergreen’ at times bathes in strings, woodwind and distortion, the production here is kept tender, allowing her articulate and imaginative way of carving each lyric to have its own meaningful moment.
Hoo III
The band feature members of Slowdive, Mojave 3 and Chapterhouse and are master builders of woozy dynamics, songs unfurl with a mysterious, hooky logic all their own to create deeply emotive, chaotic, cinematic and indie pop tunes.
Gnod & MC Sissi Inner Fucking Peace
Eight tracks for voice and electronics – varied in style but connected in feeling and recorded as a trio.
Richard Spaven Sole Subject
Drummer known for his machine-like precision and jazz-influenced improvisation, Spaven has worked with a diverse range of artists including Loyle Carner, Flying Lotus, and José James. His sixth solo album blends electronica, hip hop, and jazz.
Laura Marling Patterns in Repeat
Her eighth studio album was written after the birth of her daughter in 2023 and finds Laura reflecting on the patterns at play in the constellation of a family.
Elias Rønnenfelt Heavy Glory
Iceage frontman’s first solo album is the sound of growing up by throwing oneself into the world, made by someone whose only constant companions have been a pen and a guitar.
Ben Folds Sleigher
Folds examines the passage of time through the lens of Christmas, reflecting on memory, loss, and longing, as it explores the ways Christmas marks chapters of our lives. It features seven original songs plus covers of Mel Torme and Robert Wells’ “The Christmas Song”, Burt Bacharach’s “The Bell That Couldn’t Jingle,” and The Mills Brothers’ “You Don’t Have to be a Santa Claus.”
Meija There’s Always Something
The new record is a creative and personal evolution that elevates his DIY aesthetic and leans harder into ‘90s alternative influences, from Eels to Sparklehorse to Beck and Primal Scream, plus draws lyrical inspiration from stories in Greek mythology like The Odyssey and Sisyphus.
Bruce Brubaker Eno Piano 2
A record that seeks to answer the question, “Can a solo musician using an acoustic grand piano convey the atmosphere and the powerful beauty of iconic ambient music by Brian Eno?”
Courteeners Pink Cactus Cafe
Their seventh album is full of melody and chest-proud choruses engineered for arena tours and sunset slots at summer festivals.
Entheos An End To Everything EP
Duo merging elements pulled from countless genres – including death metal, groove, grunge, electronica, slam, gothic rock, jazz, prog and more – and pushing progressive death metal in ever more imaginative directions.
Thunder Jackson Hello Stranger
His debut mines a range of Jackson’s influences, from Richard Swift to D’Angelo, fusing them into a kaleidoscopic sound entirely his own.
A Swayze & The Ghosts Let’s Live A Life Better Than This
An album driven by crisp drums and crunchy guitar with 70s dance-punk embellishments.
Children of the Pope Moonface Supreme
COTP foreground their love for dirty guitars, manic shouting, and surrealist melodies citing Os Mutantes, Link Wray, and Screamin’ Jay Hawkins as key influences.
Atreyu The Pronoia Sessions
Metalcore stalwarts with a new collection of eight reimagined greatest hits and two nostalgic tribute covers.
Billie Zizi Levitate
An artist that merges the timeless vibes of classic folk, soul and contemporary R&B – and infusing avant-garde jazz into her guitar-driven melodies for a sound that’s both accessible and experimental.
Bastille &
A collection of story songs that intertwine the lives and wide worlds of startling women and men.
Wendy James The Shape of History
The ex-Transvision Vamp singer’s tenth album is a love letter and a Thank you note to life so far.
Jake Isaac Benjamin
UK soul singer shares the sides of him that, like his middle-name, are hidden from public view, with nuanced reflections on his family’s heritage, his spirituality, and overcoming the obstacles that have emerged throughout his life journey.
Curses Another Heaven
Artist known for making dark, romantic, cinematic New Wave, threading the visceral connection between 1980’s inspired Goth and melancholic post-punk to the DIY energy of early electronic body music,
Cats in Space Time Machine
A distinctive blend of classic rock, power pop, and glam rock full of rich harmonies, melodic guitar riffs, and anthemic choruses that hark back to the 1970s and 1980s.
Blood Wizard Grinning William
The more alt-folk leanings of his debut have been largely ushered out in lieu of slung low, beefier guitars that at times tighten up into taut new wave urgency and at others allow themselves to fully embrace the drop tuned sludge.
Kit Major Love.Sick.Major EP
A fusion of post-punk energy, psychedelic guitar riffs and some cheeky self-references
Kings of Mercia Battle Scars
Second album from an outfit whose debut was termed “truly a hybrid: it‘s heavy, but not metal. It‘s got tones of melodic AOR hard rock but with an edge.”
Buñuel Mansuetude
Band fronted by Eugene Robinson (ex-Oxbow) whose music warps and buckles with complexity, freedom, tenderness and primaeval energy all at once.
Amyl and the Sniffers Cartoon Darkness
The album “is about climate crisis, war, AI, tiptoeing on the eggshells of politics, and people feeling like they’re helping by having a voice online when we’re all just feeding the data beast of Big Tech, our modern-day god.”
Iotunn Kinship
Danish / Faroese progressive metal band undertake a mythological journey through eight tracks that span immense spheres both musically and lyrically, exploring the deep roots of human nature.
Kaktus Einarsson Lobster Coda
Amidst a collection of lush, electronic earworms, Kaktus has penned an honest account of his recovery from a sudden functional neurological disorder (FND) that required him to relearn how to use his motor functions
Lifter Clasping Hands with the Moribund
The band take musical cues from a diverse range of sources, including slowcore, folk, country, and indie rock
Enforced A Leap Into The Dark EP
Virginia thrash band with a six-track EP featuring three brand-new ENFORCED tracks alongside three explosive B-sides, including the fan-favourite “Casket” and blistering covers of ENGLISH DOGS’ “The Chase Is On” and OBITUARY’s “Deadly Intentions.”
Ece Era Bedside Tunes
On her vibrant/mournful electronic debut, Turkish musician/filmmaker Ece Era challenges cultural ideologies, identity structures, and her difficult past with tracks crafted during introspective moments before sleep or upon waking.
The Fall Grotesque Live!
Frustrated by a lack of recognition, consultation and compensation by some of the labels putting out reissues, live LPs and compilations from the 40-year history of the well-loved post punk group, Paul Hanley, Steve Hanley, Marc Riley and Craig Scanlon devised a plan to shift some of the balance back in the favour of former members of the band. They settled on something of a unique solution: to totally recreate albums they had appeared on but from recordings taken at a variety of shows
Wand In a Capsule Underground
An archival release containing demos and unreleased songs from Wand’s salad days in the time of the immortal Ganglion Reef (ten years ago).
Soul Asylum Slowly But Shirley
Their thirteenth studio album, its title and cover pay homage to Shirley “Cha Cha” Muldowney, a pioneering drag racer who inspired lead vocalist Dave Pirner during his youth. It is a combination of country, alt rock, funk-fusion and grunge.
tp Dutchkiss High Functioning
An eleven-track collection teetering between jittery beats and experimental songwriting.
Balaam and the Angel Forces of Evil EP
A return from band formed in the early 80’s inspired at that time by the new scene that was developing around Bauhaus, The Sisters Of Mercy, Southern Death Cult, Theatre Of Hate
Trauma Ray Chameleon
Shoegaze revivalists whose name was name inspired by the German word for ‘daydream, or ‘dream state.’
Angelo Harmsworth Without Blinking
Music on the verge of collapse, barely held together by its syrupy textures, intoxicated rhythmic gestures and characteristically raw emotionality.
Beth Hart You Still Got Me
Powerhouse singer-songwriter whose album includes guest appearances from Slash and Eric Gales.
Mel Blue Back Then, Computer Sound EP
They draw heavily from a universal feeling of wistful nostalgia. At once imbuing their dance music with retrospection and modernity.
Dondrea Northern Roots
A Canadian singer-songwriter originally from Calgary (and currently based in Los Angeles) that is known for her emotive and vulnerable tunes that explores themes of self-discovery and living in the present and draws inspiration from nature and her everyday surroundings.
League of Distortion Galvanise
Metal band that stands for sincerity, honesty and incredible power, topped by hard beats and bludgeoning guitar riffs.
