It is a particularly fine week for new releases. Here is Silent Radio’s guide.
The Children’s Hour Going Home
Trio consisting of Josephine Foster, David Pajo and Andy Bar infusing elements of psychedelia and The Velvets, while the focus remains on Foster’s soulful voice and vivid lyricism.
Nadine Shah Filthy Underneath
Her first album since 2020’s Kitchen Sink chronicles a period of unprecedented turbulence in Nadine Shah’s life. but the music has renewed emphasis on placing melody and movement front and centre.
Laetitia Sadier Rooting for Love
The musical arrangements help to embody the layers of the issue, as with Who + What’s combination of organ, synths, guitar, bass, trombone, drum programming, vibraphone and zither, all working along intricate paths of chord and tempo changes, together with a vocal assembly known as The Choir.
Colouring Love To You, Mate
An album that lyrically explores Jack Kenworthy’s brother-in-law’s cancer diagnosis. Its musical palette mainly uses piano, drums, bass and whatever curio atmospherics the OP-1 synth sampler could muster.
Real Estate Daniel
Sixth album from Martin Courtney’s gentle melodic indie rock band.
Whitelands Night-bound Eyes Are Blind To The Day
Ostensibly a shoegaze band but with a different slant due to their musical backgrounds: Etienne played in a school band, Jagun used to sing in a choir and makes R&B, Michael dabbles in techno and Vanessa comes from the metal and punk scene.
Lair Ngelus
Indonesian soul-funk outfit produced by Go Kurusawa of Kikagaku Moyo present an album of deep social narratives and more intimate subject matters.
Mary Timony Untame the Tiger
Acoustic driven album reflecting upon the dissolution of a long-term relationship and the death of her parents.
Morgan Harper-Jones Up To The Glass
Confessional dream-pop evoking influences which range from Maggie Rogers and Harry Styles, to Aldous Harding and St. Vincent, and back to Joni Mitchell and Paul Simon.
Jazmin Bean Traumatic Livelihood
Non-binary, multi-disciplinary artist with emotionally laden album pays homage to nineties rock guitars and swooning strings.
Job For A Cowboy Moon Healer
Experimental death metal band with writing that is cryptic and elliptical–sounding, part Philip K. Dick, part Timothy Leary.
Laena Myers LUV (Songs of Yesterday)
Debut album from the genre-spanning composer, in-demand session player/singer (who has worked with John Frusciante, Jhené Aiko, Ty Segall, Shannon Lay and The Allah Las) and classically trained violinist.
Revival Season Golden Age of Self Snitching
Act that takes the languid style of the Daisy Age and bringing it into our paranoid and panicked present day.
Maya Shenfeld Under The Sun
A record of slowly evolving hypnotic electro-acoustic pieces that make canny use of repetition, space and silence to play with our very sense of time and our relationship to our surroundings.
Persher Sleep Well
Heavy music mutations linking hardcore with hardware.
Erika de Casier Still
An idiosyncratic mix of luxuriant electronica and moonlit R&B with contributions from Blood Orange and Shygirl.
Whispering Sons The Great Calm
Belgian five-piece layering synth upon synth to create a sound that is fragile yet textured.
The Body & Dis Fig Orchards of a Futile Heaven
Artists from the worlds of metal and electronics meet up to reimagine heavy music.
Allie X Girl With No Face
Artist who has written hits for BTS with a collection of songs characterised as angry, stubborn, honest, dry, melodramatic, fast, and indulgent.
Luca D’Alberto In Our Hearts
Italian composer/multi-instrumentalist with a symphony in three acts that pursues his research into the perfect balance between the neoclassical and electronic music forms.
Sleepytime Gorilla Museum Sleepytime Gorilla Museum of the Last Human Being
Group that plays an arsenal of instruments ranging from the somewhat standard (drums, electric guitars, bass, electric violin) to the rare (bass harmonica, nyckelharpa, marxophone) to the homemade (Slide-Piano Log, Electric Pancreas, Pedal-Action Wiggler) and avoids easy categorisation.
Bastion Rose Fade To Blue EP
The album blends ethereal soundscapes with powerful guitar riffs, all anchored by their fusion of soulful vocals, intricate guitar craftsmanship, and a dynamic rhythm section.
Jane Getter Premonition Division World
Band that has carved out a niche at the intersection of rock, jazz, singer-songwriter, and metal styles.
Monkey3 Welcome to the Machine
Dark modern stoner and psychedelic rock album.
Borknagar Fall
Norwegian pioneers of avant-garde progressive black metal with a record where the fundamental theme is the fascination and appreciation of the very outskirts of life.
Thee Alcoholics Feedback
London 5 piece formed by ex Hey Colossus member Rhys Llewellyn to produce mesmeric rock with swagger, warped into sci-fi shapes by the spirit and sonics of bass and sound system culture.
North Sea Echoes Really Good Terrible Things
Duo who co-founded Fates Warning deliver an album whose vocals are delivered with a sort of nostalgic sadness, and the guitar work is layered in such a way as to feel dreamlike. These are rich sonic landscapes, visiting places haunting, beautiful, spectral and secret.
Sedibus Seti
Alex Patterson combines with fellow original Orb Andy Falconer to produce musical ambience on an album whose title stands for Search For Exterrestrial Intelligence.
Austrian Death Machine Quad Brutal
Delivering the band’s most heavy, breakneck riffage, non-stop pummelling rhythms and Ahhnold-approved ferocity.
PAT!i Sahara
Artist with a sound in the borderland between vintage hard rock and modern rock, with experimental sounds and elements from hip-hop, rock and punk.
iDKHOW Gloom Division
Project from Dallon Weeks, formerly of Panic! At The Disco enters a curious wonderland of his creative mind, as he opens a window into an album of technicolour nightmares, sprawling genre experimentation and unfettered invention.
Fran Ashcroft The Songs That Never Were
Album from producer who has worked at Abbey Road Studios and with Damon Albarn. He was also a member of original power-pop band The Monos.
