Rock Action Records : Silent Radio

Album Review: Errors – New Relics

Posted by Emma Roy-Williams on October 4, 2012 · Leave a Comment

As someone who loves music, but isn’t a musician, I often wonder what inspires musicians to make music, and what they aim to achieve from making it. Errors always seem ambitious, yet understated, making music that sounds vast and sprawling, but with meticulous attention to detail. As a dance music fan, I love the range of sounds within the genre and I am drawn towards tracks that could, as horrid as it sounds, be described as ‘spicy’... Read More

Filed under ALBUMS, REVIEWS, slider · Tagged with Errors, New Relics, Rock Action Records

NEWS: ERRORS – HEAR NEW TRACK ‘RELICS’ + UK TOUR DATES

Posted by Silent Radio on July 22, 2012 · Leave a Comment

Errors have announced the release of a brand new 8-track mini-album due for release on Rock Action Records in October and UK tour including a show at Heaven in London. The new record entitled ‘New Relics’ follows on from the critically acclaimed ‘Have Some Faith In Magic’ released earlier this year. ‘New Relics’ was recorded by the 3 piece during the Spring of 2012 in their Glasgow studio and will be released on... Read More

Filed under NEWS, On The Airwaves · Tagged with Errors, Rock Action Records, Soup Kitchen

Album Review: Cloud Boat - Book of Hours

Book of Hours is the debut LP from Cloud Boat. This London based duo already has [more]

NEWS: CAMERA OBSCURA – LISTEN TO ‘FIFTH IN THE LINE TO THE THRONE’

With the release of their long-awaited new album ‘Desire Lines’ on June 3rd via 4AD, [more]

NEWS: PVT - NEW STOP-MOTION VIDEO FOR ‘HOMOSAPIEN’

Australian electronic band PVT have released their new video for ‘Homosapien’. The clip is a [more]

NEWS: KESTON COBBLERS CLUB - LISTEN TO NEW SINGLE ‘BEAM’ OUT NOW

The distinctive sound that makes Keston Cobblers’ Club so unique comes from a desire to [more]

LIVE: THE SPECIALS – 15/05/2013

- THE APOLLO, MANCHESTER - So picture this. Mass unemployment, disappearing high streets, strikes and burning [more]

LIVE: PUBLIC SERVICE BROADCASTING – 14/05/2013

- SOUND CONTROL, MANCHESTER - Over ten mock TVs are set up around the stage of [more]

LIVE: HOW TO DRESS WELL – 15/05/2013

- WHITWORTH GALLERY, MANCHESTER - I’m a relative latecomer to the stylised, lo-fi R&B sounds of [more]

Album Review: Mark Lanegan and Duke Garwood - Black Pudding

Some musicians have forged such an enduring image and reputation that they have somehow achieved [more]

NEWS:TELEMAN - NEW SINGLE ‘STREAM TRAIN GIRL’ + SUEDE SUPPORT

Teleman have announced that their new single ‘Steam Train Girl’ will be released on July 1st through the [more]

NEWS: KULT COUNTRY - NEW SINGLE 'AMONGST THE DEAD FOREVER'

Kult Country front man Yousif Al-Karaghouli is someone who makes things happen. Within a week [more]

Album Review: Hunter Valentine - Collide and Conquer

Hunter Valentine are a three-piece female rock band with catchy songs and a lot of [more]

LIVE: BEACH FOSSILS – 15/05/2013

- THE ROADHOUSE, MANCHESTER - In the past few years there has been a rise in [more]

LIVE: THE COMPUTERS – 11/05/2013

- THE DEAF INSTITUTE, MANCHESTER - I find it hard to be critical of any band [more]

LIVE: JOHN GRANT – 14/05/2013

- THE RITZ, MANCHESTER - **WARNING** This review will be two things: 1) quite gushing, and [more]

Album Review: Kid Congo & The Pink Monkey Birds - Haunted Head

After well-known spells in respected bands such as The Gun Club, The Cramps and Nick [more]

Album Review: Vampire Weekend - Modern Vampires of the City

Alarms bells rang the moment I read Ezra Koenig's interview in the NME a few [more]

LIVE: VONDELPARK / BLOOM – 09/05/2013

- ISLINGTON MILL, MANCHESTER - Islington Mill tends to be home to the more freaky, experimental [more]

Album Review: Mikal Cronin - MCII

For those who closely follow the fuzzy haze of the lo-fi scene, Mikal Cronin is no stranger. Having [more]

Album Review: Small Black - Limits of Desire

Ah Brooklyn, that supposed musical paradise in a land far away. I am always a [more]

NEWS: CLOUD BOAT 'YOUTHERN' VIDEO + LP

With a debut album ‘Book of Hours’ released 27th May, Cloud Boat unveil the video [more]

NEWS: NICK CAVE AND THE BAD SEEDS ‘MERMAIDS’ OUT 20th May + VIDEO

The new video for Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds’ upcoming new single ‘Mermaids’ is [more]

LIVE: LAURA MVULA – 07/05/2013

- GORILLA, MANCHESTER - Laura Mvula steps onto Gorilla’s stage, its backdrop a strange assemblage of [more]

NEWS: MAJICAL CLOUDZ – NEW ALBUM ‘IMPERSONATOR’

Majical Cloudz is the voice of Montreal songwriter Devon Welsh exploring the negative space within [more]

NEWS: DEAP VALLY – VIDEO FOR ‘BABY, I CALL HELL’ + LP RELEASE

Ahead of the release of their debut album 'Sistrionix' on June 24th, Deap Vally have unveiled the [more]

NEWS: A GRAVE WITH NO NAME – ALBUM, TOUR AND FREE SAMPLE

On Monday 1st July A Grave With No Name will return with a new album [more]

NEWS: SUNDAY NIGHT LIVE WITH JOHN COOPER CLARKE

The extraordinary poet John Cooper Clarke will tread the boards at London’s Palladium for his [more]

LIVE: UNKNOWN MORTAL ORCHESTRA - 06/05/2013

- THE DEAF INSTITUTE, MANCHESTER - Rushing over from Salford's Media City following a live set [more]

NEWS: FAIR OHS - NEW ALBUM + UK LIVE DATES

Fair Ohs release their second full length, Jungle Cats on 28th May and just for [more]

EP Review: Death To The Strange - Sign On

As someone who grew up with the screams of Kurt Cobain in one ear and [more]

NEWS: DATE PALMS - LIVE VIDEO FOR 'DUSTED DOWN'

Date Palms revolves around the core duo of Gregg Kowalsky (keyboards, electronics) and Marielle Jakobsons [more]

Album Review: Errors – New Relics

NEWS: ERRORS – HEAR NEW TRACK ‘RELICS’ + UK TOUR DATES

BREAKING RADIO SILENCE

John Peel’s Philosophy On Music (Of Which We Concur)