Probably the busiest week of 2024 so far. Without further ado, here is Silent Radio’s roundup of the week’s new releases.
Julia Holter Something in the Room She Moves
Singer-songwriter/composer whose production choices and arrangements form a continuum of fretless electric bass pitches in counterpoint with gliding vocal melodies, while Yamaha CS-60 lines entwine warm winds and reeds.
Saint Saviour Sunseeker
Produced by Bill Ryder-Jones, Sunseeker is an experiment in challenging dourness; eleven tracks of warm, light, baroque pop that swim in light.
Aoife O’Donovan All My Friends
Astonishing album of songs about the passing of the 19th Amendment granting women the right to vote written from a contemporary perspective and incorporating brass, an orchestra and an all-woman choir.
Gossip Real Power
Reunited with producer Rick Rubin for an 11-track celebration of creative expression, and the power of chosen family in the aftermath of collective and personal trauma. The new pop, funk, disco diva stylings work well and Beth Ditto has rarely sounded in such good voice.
Sam Evian Plunge
A rock record that melds power pop, iridescent guitar, raucous psychedelia and features Adrienne Lenker.
Adrienne Lenker Bright Future
On Bright Future, Adrianne Lenker, a songwriter known for turns of phrase and currents of rhyme, says it plainly, “You have my heart // I want it back.” The songs are stripped back, accompanied by guitar, piano and violin.
Jon Langford & the Bright Shiners Where It Really Starts
Best known for his work with Mekons and The Three Johns, the latest outlet for his creativity is a feast of harmonies, horns, mellotron, bowed guitar, piano and looped percussion
Fletcher In Search of the Antidote
Singer-songwriter delves deeper into the ultra-vivid storytelling and unfiltered introspection that have defined her boundary-pushing brand of pop. The album sees her exploring such complex themes as identity, insecurity, ego, and self-fulfilment with distinct production and powerful vocal delivery.
Pan American & Kramer Reverberations of Non-Stop Traffic on Redding Road
Mark Nelson of La Bradford joins forces with Kramer to create eleven brief sojourns into the dream state.
Saicobab NRTYA
Japanese trio featuring YoshimiO of Boredoms blend traditional Indian music with melodies and unexpected rhythms using unorthodox instrumentation to create utterly distinct modern ragas.
Lucy McWilliams Third Second Chance EP
Irish alt-pop singer-songwriter whose songs range through expansive indie, slinky R&B, swaying acoustic pop, ‘90s-rom-com-style rock,
The Utopia Strong The BBC Sessions
Five tracks recorded for the Marc Riley show from the band made up of Kavus Torabi and Steve Davis.
Trash Fiasco Exist as Instructed
Eight track album from Chicago garage rock trio.
Odetta Hartman Swansongs
The musical mixology of these songs cycle spans various genres of folk, americana, pop, punk, soul, ambient & spiritual.
Logic1000 Mother
House music about Samantha Poulter’s experiences as a new mother.
Morgan Harper-Jones Up To The Glass
A delicate exploration of finding yourself in your twenties against a backdrop of love, self-acceptance and loss.
Thea Grant Water and Dreams
Composer and member of avant-jazz group Juno produces an experimental yet emotional set of vocal pieces.
Space Fight Hyperspeed EP
Indie pop trio with a darker and more synth focused sound.
Ceiling Spirits The Bloodwren
Multi-layered musical outfit spearheaded by composer and multi-instrumentalist Mario Quadraccii. The album explores the cyclical nature of chaos and how the exploited and weak can be turned monstrous by cruelty and derision.
Flamango Bay Mascara EP
LA band inspired by the riot grrl movement, Mitski’s Bury Me At Makeout Creek and bands like X-Ray Spex.
Waxahatchee Tigers Blood
New album from indie-Americana artist.
Rosali Bite Down
North Carolina songwriter with an album tracing two cross-country moves.
Masal The Galloping Cat
Harp and synth duo collaborate on six meandering tracks of psychedelic grooves, electronic weirdness and motorik basslines mostly wordlessly exploring themes of self-discovery.
The Wandering Hearts Mother
British trio with a handcrafted patchwork of folk-style storytelling, pop hooks and rock energy threaded together by their luminous signature harmonies.
VR Sex Hard Copy
Ten tracks of sneering psychedelic punk streaked with Chrome-damaged freak-outs and snotty power pop harmonies chronicling sex doll love affairs and glue-sniffing fatales.
Magic Tuber Stringband Needlefall
This album draws equally from the rich, living traditions of Appalachia alongside American avant-garde and minimalist movements.
Hideous Divinity Unextinct
An album marking another step towards musical unspoken terror and frenzy.
Onceweresixty Don’t Get Stuck
Weird psych folk pop with echoes of Pavement, Velvet Underground and Silver Jews
Not Me But Us Two
Duo blends both of their influences with added echoes of ambient, techno, 2000s club culture, post-classical and vague hints of post-rock.
Rory Ryan When You’re Alone, How Does It Feel?
An artist taking influence from neo-psychedelia bands such as MGMT, Sunbeam Sound Machine, Beach House, Cigarettes After Sex and The Flaming Lips, as well as classic ‘70s songwriting from the likes of Carole King, Labi Siffre, Todd Rundgren, and McCartney.
Sleap-e 8106
The eleven songs are sharp, vibrant shards which, when you step back, build a mosaic of Asia Martina Morabito’s world: the growing pains of your early twenties, remaining faithful to your dreams despite the hostility of adulthood, places of escape both real and imagined – and the pulse of Bologna, her home.
Butthole Surfers Psychic…Powerless…Another Man’s Sac, Rembrandt Pussyhorse, and PCPPEP
Reissues from the band’s unparalleled, strange and often grotesque early period.
Keygen Church Nel Nome Del Codice
A modern-primitive love letter to doom/gothic/black metal with foundations in Baroque-era Classical and Romantic-era music.
Hamferd Men Guðs Hond Er Sterk
Faroe Islands based death/doom metal act with an album played live together in the studio without a click track.
Vince Freeman Scars, Ghosts & Glories
Musician who has performed at the likes of the F1 at Silverstone, horse-racing at Ascot, the FA Cup Final, receiving a platinum disc (for a collaboration with Lost Frequencies), 5 European Top 10s, sharing stages with Eric Clapton, Paul Weller, Jocelyn Brown, and Jamie Woon, and even has a thank you on Ed Sheeran’s debut album.
Green Milk from the Planet Orange & Fuckwolf Let’s Split
A limited-edition album-length release celebrating a 2024 Japanese split tour between the neo-psychedelic Green Milk from the Planet Orange and the scuzzy art rockers Fuckwolf.
Frank & Tony Ethos
Duo whose moniker is an homage to creative friendship, the fluid and free anonymity of club culture and the belief that house music continues to bring communities together from its earliest days until the present.
Boris & Coaltar of the Deepers Hello there
Two Japanese bands that formed in the 90s get together and “present newly recorded self-covers of past songs to today’s listeners”.
USA Nails Feel Worse
Noise rock/no wave band from London comprising of members of Kong, Future Of The Left, Death Pedals and Silent Front. Their album explores schadenfreude.
no-ne Daisyland
This album represents a return to English songwriting, appealing to enthusiasts of Indie Pop, Alternative Rock, and 90’s Shoegazing.
Desperate Measures Sublime Destruction
An album that sits between the Cult and the Stooges with lots of hooks and dynamics.
The Cyrkle Revival
Thirteen new tracks of sunshine pop from band who opened for The Beatles.
Dylan Henner The Shepherds
Composer with a soundtrack of woodwinds, brass, harp, piano, synthesis, and processed voice.
Hammer King Konig und Kaiser
Hammering, fast running double kick drums meet speed riffing on the 10 new metal hymns, crowned by memorable sing-along choruses that are meant to be sung with a fist raised in the air.
Martin Rev Martin Rev
A reissue of his 1980 solo debut which followed soon after Suicide’s second album.
Alestorm Voyage of the Dead Marauder
EP in trademark pirate metal style, breaking into an intense middle passage before unleashing a wild, synth-laden pirate party breakdown full of intense screams.
Only Fire Moana Lisa
Five club ready bangers inspired by living in Berlin.
