ALBUM ROUNDUP WEEK ENDING 16 MAY 2025

Tune-Yards     Better Dreaming        Proudly waving an anti-fascist, liberation, freak flag, Better Dreaming contains some of Tune-Yards smoothest, funkiest, and most direct pop music to date. Carmel Smickersgill               Unsolicited Advice EP           Modern classical / outsider pop artist whose new EP is subtly darker in tone to its predecessor, Smickersgill is keen to stress that “Unsolicited […]

EP REVIEW – FARMER’S WIFE: FAINT ILLUSIONS

If you took lemonade, Pop Rocks, a little bit of mud and some glitter you would get something that resembles how this EP from Farmer’s Wife sounds. It comes as part of the ongoing shoegaze renaissance bringing a sort of backwoods goth vibe to the genre. I’m talking about the feeling of soil on bare […]

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ALBUM REVIEW – SHUNKAN: KAMIKAZE GIRL

 I’m 23 now, which is a weird age. I’ve completely lost myself and have no clue what I’m really supposed to do anymore, I think some would call it a kind of burnout. The last year has really put me through it and yet I just can’t shake this feeling that there is something more […]

ALBUM REVIEW – SLEEP THEORY: AFTERGLOW

Metalcore is one of the only subgenres of metal that blurs the line between metal and more mainstream music genres such as pop. That is why people either love it or hate it. It is very rare to find a band that innovates metalcore as so many metalcore bands just focus on the catchy choruses […]

ALBUM REVIEW – EZRA FURMAN: GOODBYE SMALL HEAD

The greatest music can often be borne of desperation and crisis. While it is impossible to explain why this should be, it is surely linked to the catharsis of creativity being the best coping mechanism. Ezra Furman’s tenth album is a wonderful example of this. On 11 April 2023, she woke ill, limped to the […]

FEATURE: WHO ARE YA – DREAMWAVE – BRISTOL BAND TAKING INSPIRATION FROM THE LIKES OF OSEES, KING GIZZARD, PINK FLOYD, AND ADDING THEIR OWN MELODIC TWISTS TO CREATE A DAZZLING PSYCH ROCK MINDMELT

INTERVIEW: REGENT

LIVE REVIEW – BRYAN ADAMS: MANCHESTER ARENA – 09/05/2025

What can I say? Flying cars, floating boxing gloves, and a heartfelt finale—I fear I have become a massive Bryan Adams fan. I’d be lying if I said I wasn’t expecting this performance to be very similar to Frankie Valli’s from 2023. You know, the almost ventriloquist act with overly enthusiastic backing singers doing most […]

ALBUM REVIEW – CAR SEAT HEADREST: THE SCHOLARS

“You can love again, if you try again.” [Enter Stage] Everyone’s favourite internet obsessed band is back! …Well one of my favourites. The lovechild of Virginia-born Will Toledo, what once started out as a simple solo project, coalescing into a full band project, returns after 5 years with “The Scholars”, an album that, at its […]

A QUICK CATCH UP WITH HUNNYBEES

ALBUM ROUNDUP WEEK ENDING 16 MAY 2025

EP REVIEW – FARMER’S WIFE: FAINT ILLUSIONS

ALBUM REVIEW – SHUNKAN: KAMIKAZE GIRL

ALBUM REVIEW – SLEEP THEORY: AFTERGLOW

ALBUM ROUNDUP WEEK ENDING 9 MAY 2025

Join Silent Radio as we guide you through another hectic week of new releases. John McKay   Sixes and Sevens      Original guitarist with Siouxsie & the Banshees who is still credited as a major influence by Geordie from Killing Joke, Jim Reid of The Jesus And Mary Chain, U2’s The Edge, Thurston Moore, Johnny Marr and […]

ALBUM REVIEW – EZRA FURMAN: GOODBYE SMALL HEAD

LIVE REVIEW – BRYAN ADAMS: MANCHESTER ARENA – 09/05/2025

ALBUM REVIEW – CAR SEAT HEADREST: THE SCHOLARS

ALBUM REVIEW – VARIOUS ARTISTS: TRUE NAMES

LIVE REVIEW – HAMLET HAIL TO THE THIEF: AVIVA STUDIOS – 07/05/2025

  A dozen jackets hang suspended on a stage shrouded in dry ice while eerie music drones. It could be a modern gallery’s art exhibition. If anyone entering Aviva Studios prior to curtain call did not realise in advance, ‘Hamlet Hail to the Thief’ is by no means a standard Shakespearean production. Instead, it is […]

ALBUM REVIEW – JEFFREY ALEXANDER + THE HEAVY LIDDERS: SYNCHRONOUS ORBIT

Often, I use the word ‘meandering’ as an insult when describing music or any other art form. However, ‘Synchronous Orbit’, the new album from Jeffrey Alexander + The Heavy Lidders warrants that description but in the best possible connotations of the word. It is unhurried like a walk of exploration with no map and predefined […]

INTERVIEW: THE TELESCOPES

ALBUM ROUNDUP WEEK ENDING 9 MAY 2025

LIVE REVIEW – HAMLET HAIL TO THE THIEF: AVIVA STUDIOS – 07/05/2025

ALBUM REVIEW – JEFFREY ALEXANDER + THE HEAVY LIDDERS: SYNCHRONOUS ORBIT

ALBUM REVIEW – THE KOOKS: NEVER/KNOW

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