ALBUM ROUNDUP WEEK ENDING 8 NOVEMBER 2024

There is a healthy bundle of new releases this week. Here they are: Our Girl             The Good Kind             New signings to Bella Union, their dynamics permeate the record, from heavy guitars and soaring lead lines to ear worm choruses and intimate vocal moments. Filled with warmth and honesty, The Good Kind is a celebration of […]
The latest release from Analog Africa grapples with a quandary. How can the owner of an independent record label create a project celebrating piracy, normally seen as a curse robbing artists and labels of sales and therefore income? However, in addition to providing an intriguing piece of social history through its accompanying informative booklet, that […]

ALBUM REVIEW – VARIOUS ARTISTS: SUPER DISCO PIRATA – DE TAPITO PARA EL MUNDO 1965-1980

ALBUM REVIEW – MIRACLE OF SOUND: MATERIA BEST OF 2011-2024

Everyone loves a good movie, videogame, TV show or book. Everyone loves music to some extent too! Miracle Of Sound, the project of mastermind Gavin Dunne, combines music with everything to do with entertainment. His diverse music has been streamed millions and millions of times, but his time has now come, as his record label […]
There are moments on ‘Good People’, the opening track on The Harpoonist’s ‘Did We Come Here to Dance’, on which the harmonica and vocals mimic each other, the harmonica virtually singing in a way that is just extraordinary.  Combine this with deep soul Hammond organ, equally soulful vocals and its call to action, “did we […]

ALBUM REVIEW – THE HARPOONIST: DID WE COME HERE TO DANCE

ALBUM REVIEW – BLACK PUS: TERRESTRIAL SEETHINGS

Terrestrial Seethings is the latest release by Black Pus, the solo project of Lightning Bolt drummer/vocalist/album cover artist/noisemaker Brian Chippendale. You’d be hard pressed to find a better percussionist on the planet, playing at the exact knife-edge meeting point of speed, strength and blind aggression all whilst spewing mangled vocal lines from behind a patchwork […]
A Bananagun is a surreal concept, like something visualised by Salvador Dali. It conjures brightly vivid images of sticky potassium being fired in a scattershot fashion while stumbling over discarded banana skins.  The name suits the Melbourne/Naarm group’s second album which creates a ramshackle blend of psych-garage, freakbeat experimentation and spiritual jazz. Compared with the […]

ALBUM REVIEW – BANANAGUN: WHY IS THE COLOUR OF THE SKY?

ALBUM ROUNDUP WEEK ENDING 1 NOVEMBER 2024

Silent Radio’s guide to a busy week of new releases. Trust Fund       Has It Been A While? Fans of seventies singer-songwriters, and particularly Nick Drake’s first two Joe Boyd-produced albums, will find much to recommend here, while Belle and Sebastian’s early folk-inflected material is another obvious touchstone. Hard-Fi              Don’t Go Making Plans EP  EP whose […]
It has been four years since Courteeners released their last album ‘More. Again. Forever.’ Coming out just before the world shut down leaving many like me locked inside listening to music all day every day. The album was a more mature Courteeners as opposed to their “lad-ish” nature that many fans had come to know […]

ALBUM REVIEW – COURTEENERS: PINK CACTUS CAFE

ALBUM REVIEW – PIXIES: THE NIGHT THE ZOMBIES CAME

Grunge pioneers, surf-rock legends and enduring icons Pixies have returned with their horror-themed ninth studio album The Night the Zombies Came, and the first effort containing new bassist and vocalist Emma Richardson, after a long-standing 11-year stint of bassist Paz Lenchantin, who departed from the group earlier this year. The album contains 13 songs and […]
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 […]

ALBUM ROUNDUP WEEK ENDING 25 OCTOBER 2024