ALBUM REVIEW – LIZZIE NO: HALFSIES

Despite contributions from immensely talented black artists (Lead Belly, Odetta, Elizabeth Cotten, Ma Rainey), folk music can often be a genre that enables and celebrates white mediocrity. White folk singers depend on the exhausted formula of southern drawl and a broken heart to fulfil their dreams of releasing a cliché folk track and frankly, they’re […]
Gently easing us into the new year, here are the releases from the first two weeks of 2024. Bill Ryder-Jones                 Iechyd Da            Welsh for good health or cheers, his fifth album is rich in scope, at times joyous, grand and sweeping, at others heartbreaking, intimate and tender. Cash & Carter    No Use Praying Five […]

ALBUM ROUNDUP WEEK ENDING 12 JANUARY 2024

ALBUM REVIEW: BILL RYDER-JONES – IECHYD DA

If the script writing boffins in TV land ever needed an artistic triumph over adversity series with a twist, they could do no better than looking towards the brilliant Bill Ryder-Jones for a gripping tale. From his early musical beginnings as a teen in The Coral, to taking time out from music to focus on […]
Over a couple of decades since his last original project, Peter Gabriel finally releases his most recent and highly anticipated album. i/o (or input/output) features intense subject matter on areas such as humanity’s position in society, the complicated ethics behind the justice system, the connection between astrology and people, and many other introspective topics. Since […]

ALBUM REVIEW: PETER GABRIEL: I/O

2024 PREVIEWS

As a website with a continual thirst for new music, each year brings us the anticipation of new artists that will establish themselves as favourites. Hopefully, our end of year Best of 2024 lists will consist of many names that are currently unfamiliar to us but, in the meantime, there are plenty of more familiar […]
Dedicating an album to covering the work of one artist can often mean striking a difficult balance. Maintaining the heart of what makes the originals so persistent whilst not coming forward with a carbon copy is extremely difficult. What Moping in Style has going for it is a pretty stellar cast of musicians ready to […]

ALBUM REVIEW – VARIOUS: MOPING IN STYLE: A TRIBUTE TO ADAM GREEN

SILENT RADIO’S TOP FORTY ALBUMS OF THE YEAR – 2023

In many respects, 2023 was a diabolical year. Fortunately, music provided considerable solace and we were spoilt for choice in nominating our favourite albums of the year. We are pleased to announce that BC Camplight’s ‘The Last Rotation of Earth’ is our album of the year. He has been a long-standing favourite at Silent Radio […]
Get Wrong’s self-titled debut EP seems somewhat like a mission statement from the band. Made up of Naomi Griffin and Adam Todd of Martha and The Spook School respectively, they have departed from the guitar music of their previous work for a full-blown pop project, but one that is as earnest and direct as their […]

EP REVIEW – GET WRONG: GET WRONG

LIVE REVIEW: DJANGO DJANGO – NEW CENTURY HALLS 13/12/23

Advice After Tooth Extractions: 1. Take painkillers as soon as possible and before local anaesthetic wears off, and thereafter as necessary for the pain. Check… 2. Avoid rinsing out your mouth or disturbing the extraction socket for the first 24 hours, so as not to upset the natural blood clot forming, which initiates healing. OK… […]
Dana Margolin, singer and guitarist of Porridge Radio, makes my blood run cold with one phrase uttered at the very start of their Yes show this evening. ‘We’re going to play mainly new stuff’. That’s it. That’s enough to dampen my enthusiasm for this show on a mild Monday evening in December, the promise that […]

LIVE REVIEW: PORRIDGE RADIO – 11/12/23