ALBUM REVIEW – THE DARKNESS: DREAMS ON TOAST

A heavy, thumping riff. A strong, pounding drumbeat. That glamourous metal swagger of Justin Hawkins. The Darkness are back and ready to rock your socks off like they have many times before. The opening track to Dreams on Toast, ‘Rock and Roll Party Cowboy’, is the perfect start to any glam metal album. Loaded with […]
Four years after the release of The Turning Wheel (2021), Tia Cabral dares to fiddle with the work of God in Portrait of My Heart (2025, Sacred Bones Records); creating a unique record in her catalogue that takes distance with their predecessors without losing identity. Cabral is cautious in Portrait of my Heart: the tracks […]

ALBUM REVIEW – SPELLLING: PORTRAIT OF MY HEART

ALBUM ROUNDUP WEEK ENDING 21 MARCH 2025

Silent Radio’s guide to the week’s new releases. Benefits            Constant Noise          The band take a different approach to the in-your-face polemics of their debut. Recalibrated as a two-piece featuring founding members Kingsley Hall and Robbie Major. The album is still angry, the band is still angry, but rather than regurgitate what they’ve already done, it […]
It will come as no surprise that ‘Choses Sauvages III’ is the third album from the Montreal based six-piece of that name. While they might take their numerological approach to record naming from Led Zeppelin, that is where the similarities end. Back in an era where musical tribal loyalties were more dogmatic, they would have […]

ALBUM REVIEW – CHOSES SAUVAGES: CHOSES SAUVAGES III

ALBUM REVIEW – SACRED PAWS: JUMP INTO LIFE

Sacred Paws have a signature sound, a blend of Afrobeats and highlife with a post-punk spikiness and pop melodicism. While this can be blessing, it also has its drawbacks. Any of their songs are instantly identifiable as their own work but it does mean that new releases do not contain a huge element of surprise. […]
Silent Radio’s guide to the week’s new releases. Circuit des Yeux         Halo on the Inside     The latest from Haley Fohr is a rhapsodic, hedonistic, dance floor-adjacent, pagan-friendly, horns-adorning wall of sound and emotion. The Loft             Dr Clarke         Latest from first Creation band on TV, first to hit the top of the indie singles chart, first […]

ALBUM ROUNDUP WEEK ENDING 14 MARCH 2025

ALBUM REVIEW – JEFFREY LEWIS: THE EVEN MORE FREEWHEELIN’ JEFFREY LEWIS

A songwriter with the ability to mine his autobiographical persona, fears and self-loathing to emotional yet comedic effect, Jeffrey Lewis has a catalogue of songs with a unique quality. Dating back to 2001’s ‘The Chelsea Hotel Oral Sex Song’ and 2006’s ‘Williamsburg Will Oldham Horror’, he could weave his heroes and influences into songs riddled […]
The indie rock scene is in a promising position as of late with the meteoric rise of artists like Fontaines D.C, Wunderhorse and Sam Fender releasing refreshing music and playing massive headline shows. Somebody’s Child is one of those artists that could join them in the future striking gold with the release of his second […]

ALBUM REVIEW – SOMEBODY’S CHILD: WHEN YOUTH FADES AWAY

ALBUM REVIEW – BAMBARA: BIRTHMARKS

Sex, death and religion. Karaoke bar violence and holy relic theft. ‘Wild At Heart’ meets ‘Seven’. Those familiar with Bambara will by now have come to expect that an album means not merely a collection of darkly alluring songs, but a narratively driven, complex and atmospherically potent cinematic trip in which each song plays out […]
She’s the star who’s stretched the boundaries of fashion and entertainment beyond the realms of possibility, a staple of 21st century pop culture, mastering the art of reinvention and successfully transcending multiple genres in her own right; Lady Gaga has released her sixth studio album, Mayhem. The record is a stellar blend of experimental rock […]

ALBUM REVIEW – LADY GAGA: MAYHEM