As summer finally emerges, here is Silent Radio’s guide to the week’s aural sunshine.
Sumac The Healer
Over the course of 4 tracks in 76 minutes, SUMAC presents a sequence of shifting movements which undergo a constant process of expansion, contraction, corruption and regrowth.
O WeirdOs
Duo consisting of baritone sax and drums with 10 tracks of high-octane instrumentals recorded live to tape, the duo encompass everything from cathartic dancefloor drops, to junglist breakbeats, intricate jazz lines, and sludgy, menacing doom metal.
Hi Fi Sean and David McAlmont Daylight
The exhilarating suite of twelve songs on Daylight celebrates, expresses and explores the colours of summer.
The Joy The Joy
Their harmonies hark back to yet another vocal tradition. Mbube means ‘lion’, which gives some indication of the elemental power its practitioners summon when bursting into song.
Wytch Pycknyck Wytch Pycknyck
A juggernaut journey of Motorhead meets Butthole Surfers meets Sonic Youth pop-noise, all delivered with an AC/DC stomp.
Until The Ribbon Breaks Visitor
Complex, haunting, and compelling electronic-pop songs.
Max Blansjaar False Comforts
Artist born in Amsterdam, raised in Oxford and recorded this début album, ‘False Comforts’ in Brooklyn. He first appeared on the Oxford scene in 2018, aged 15, promoting shows in all-ages venues and performing his playfully sincere lo-fi indie pop songs.
Dumbo Tracks Move With Intention
A varied collection of nine zoned-out grooves direct from Dumbo Studio in Cologne, with vocal contributions from Portable, Ada, Marker Starling, Rubee Fegan and nothhingspecial.
Mouses bwywtb
A lo-fi garage queer-punk duo bring their sunshine-filled, psychedelic fuzz to the world.
Kvaen The Formless Fires
Swedish band heavily influenced by traditional speed metal, folk music, death metal, and relentless black metal
Aseethe The Cost
A singular blend of seismic weight, mesmeric drone, and gripping tension is the Midwestern band’s musical signature.
Rich Ruth Water Still Flows
A stunning opus of Spiritual Jazz, Psych Rock, Kosmiche, Doom and Stoner Metal
Qoa Sauco
Argentinian ambient artist
Wild Spelks A House Full Of Strangers EP
Debut EP. Echoing Nimrod-era Green Day at their finest, a touch of Manic Street Preachers searing ‘90s Britpop threaded with glockenspiel and Hammond organs, and some wistful heartlands rock energy to boot.
Tether Mirror Work
Post-hardcore band that set out to deliver messages of optimism, self-conviction, and a sense of the infinite possibilities for what can be.
Clone Dividing Line
Post-punk band whose lyrics involve the struggles and critiques of the working person’s daily life..
Daniel Davies Ghost of the Heart
Solo album from lauded composer of atmospheric, synth-heavy instrumental music—for film and TV scores, alongside John Carpenter on the director’s ‘Lost Themes’ albums, and on solo releases like ‘Signals’ and ‘Spies’ who merges this with his earlier incarnation as a rocker.
Rui Gabriel Compassion
Ten tracks that combine ethereal pop with slacker-rock and piano-driven dance music,
Gracie Abrams The Secret of Us
Songwriter who has earned the admiration of such like-minded artists as Taylor Swift, Lorde, Billie Eilish, and Olivia Rodrigo while naming Joni Mitchell as her formative influence.
Moon Diagrams Cemetery Classics
The solo project of Deerhunter co-founder and drummer Moses Archuleta.
Portrait The Host
Swedish heavy metal band offer an occult tale of sword and sorcery.
Hungrytown Circus For Sale
Indie folk/chamber pop duo
Peter Murphy Peter Live – Vol One – Covers
Former Bauhaus frontman with covers of tracks by Pere Ubu, Magazine, Bowie, Elvis and Prince.
Peter Murphy Peter Live – Vol Two – The Blender Theatre NYC 2008
Live album.
Lankum Live in Dublin
Recorded across three sold out nights at Dublin’s Vicar Street, the album features Lankum performing songs from across their catalogue including ‘The Rocky Road to Dublin’, which up until now has never been officially released
Sufjan Stevens Seven Swans
20th anniversary expanded reissue.
The Mad Walls Have You Heard The News?
An album informed by, but no way in hock to, early MC5, Skip Spence, Sonic Youth, Syd Barrett and Jefferson Airplane.
History of Guns Half Light
Eighth album from UK electro-goth post-punk band.
Marcella Detroit Jewel
30th anniversary reissue of Shakespears Sister solo album including a duet with Elton John
Mieu Her Light EP
A collection of demos written with longtime bandmate and producer Chris quickly turned into ‘Her Light’: five introspective love songs that combine shimmering guitars and syncopated rhythms with a blasé elegance reminiscent of Hope Sandoval and Anna Karina.
