Lots of lovely releases clamouring for our attention this week. Allow Silent Radio to present our weekly guide.
Jonathan Wilson Eat the Worm
In addition to guitar and vocal performing with Roger Waters’ live band, Wilson has worked as a producer with the likes of Father John Misty and Angel Olsen. ‘Eat the Worm’ offers him the opportunity to indulge some off-the-wall ideas emerging from his production sessions, the best of which are dazzling.
Congratulations Woo Hoo
New Bella Union signing’s debut EP from Brighton band who weave between funky and heavy, dancy and doomy, anthemic and aggressive making great companions to label mates Pom Poko.
Super Duty Tough Work Paradigm Shift
Polaris music prize nominated group with a record can be boiled down to having two distinct sides: party and revolution.
Public Service Broadcasting/BBC Symphony Orchestra/Jules Buckley The New Noise
A remixed and remastered version of the 2022 Prom celebrating the centenary of the BBC.
The Handsome Family Hallow
On their eleventh album, The Handsome Family develop new tunes they describe as “Western gothic”, its dark, tangled sounds take inspiration from the abandoned strip malls of desert America where “cracked pavement shimmers with heat and thorny weeds slowly reclaim the land”.
Cardiacs A Little Man and the House and the Whole World Window
Reissued 1987 album from the seminal band with 4 bonus CDs comprised of BBC sessions, live performances, studio sessions together with a casebound 52-page book.
Courtney Barnett End of the Day
Instrumental album comprised of 17 seamless improvisations which were originally created as part of the score to the documentary ‘Anonymous Club’, ‘End Of The Day’ is a meditative, slow-burning and beautiful record, prioritising atmosphere, tone and texture over traditional song structures and melodic hooks.
James Blake Playing Robots into Heaven
Sixth album from singer, songwriter, minimalist multi-instrumentalist.
Glorious Sons Glory
Canadian JUNO award winning band that makes lyrically driven, unpredictable, thought-provoking anthems for the socially conscious.
Yussef Dayes Black Classical Music
Multi-instrumentalist with collaborative jazz and groove-based sound.
VC Pines MRI
Alt-soul, singer-songwriter with an album which tells the tale of “someone struggling with mental health, juggling relationships, friendships, addictions and emotions, while being a creative person.”
Roisin Murphy Hit Parade
Murphy joins forces with DJ Koze to produce the warm thump of hip-hop, playful psychedelia, and elegant soulful grooves.
Anjimile The King An album of curses exploring what it is to be a black trans person in America. Drawing from influences ranging from religion, Phillip Glass, and lived experiences, almost everything comes from two instruments: acoustic guitar and Anjimile’s own voice.
Childe Stoned and Supremely Confident
Male singer-songwriter who draws influence across a wide range of artistic cultures – from modern literature to abstract painting, from FKA Twigs to Grayson Perry.
Pauline Hogstran Áhkká
Titled after the queen mountain of Lappland, the album consists of 2 side long drone pieces from the Copenhagen-based composer who utilises extended structures for analog and digital synthesis and processed acoustic instrumentations – strings, recorder, pipes and field recordings.
Olivia Rodrigo Guts
Grammy winning artist with new album about growing pains and trying to figure out who she is at this point in her life.
John Fahey Proofs & Refutations
Recorded in 1995/96, Proofs & Refutations is an iconoclastic set played with freedom.
The String Cheese Incident Lend Me A Hand
Colorado-bred six-piece that handle everything from bluegrass to dubstep to psychedelia with equal parts abandon and ingenuity with reflections on love, loss and resilience.
Fire Down Below Low Desert Surf Club
Ghent-based stoner rock quartet embracing the contradictions of a Belgian band making a record about the Californian desert.
Sparklehorse Bird Machine
Posthumous release of an album Mark Linkous was working on at the time of his death in 2009.
Everclear Live At The Whiskey A Go Go
Album spanning their 30-year career.
Mauve & Quinn Another Door
Alaskan twins who play play guitar, violin and piano fuse alt rock, folk, and pop that’s accentuated by blood harmonies and dynamic interplay.
Echo Ladies Lillies
Malmo based shoegaze, dreampop trio named after Echo and the Bunnymen’s drum machine incorporate more synth and electronic elements on their second album.
The Hails What’s Your Motive
Miami band blending elevated riffs, brazen lyricism and Latin rhythms.
Naoko Sakata Infinity
Gothenburg-based artist with lush piano improvisations.
CLT DRP Nothing Clever Just Feelings
Feminist electro-punk trio discoursing on themes of queerness and heartbreak, each track explores the raw emotions that come along with these lived experiences,
Nasty Heartbreak Criminals
Belgian-German aggro punk playing fucked up music for a fucked-up world.
Nick Shoulders All Bad
Spanning a variety of early country styles, the album’s rallying cry “Won’t Fence Us In” shines alongside everything from jangling Cajun waltzes to surf-rock infused bluesy ballads.
Herkedal When Heaven Calls
EP from Norwegian artist whose soaring soulful voice saw him win the IDOL TV show in his home country.
Tyer Childers Rustin’ in the Rain
A collection of songs he playfully pieced together as if he was pitching a group of songs to Elvis.
CR and the Nones The Ghosts are Coming Home
A hybrid of folk, country, punk and heartland rock.
Temps After Party EP
Five tracks from James Acaster’s improv band recorded during the same sessions as their Party Gator Purgatory album but these have a more menacing edge.
Nico Muhly David Hockney: Bigger & Closer (not smaller and further away)
Composer and pianist, Mulhy, has created a specially composed score for the Light Room Exhibition which elevates Hockney’s visual artistry to new heights, infusing each masterpiece with depth and emotion through music.
Mirror Tree Mirror Tree
A mishmash of Supertramp and King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard, tapping into Spaghetti Western soundtracks and Tropicália.
Harry Stafford and Marco Butcher We Are the Perilous Men
Inca Babies founder with a burst of swamp trash blues, post-punk devilment.
The Folk Implosion Music for KIDS
Deluxe reissue of Lou Barlow’s original compositions for the movie.
Starmen Starmenized
Fourth album from Swedish band who set out to make a record to all the heroes from the 70’s and 80’s classic rock-scene. Part of the tribute to the old rock icons was to create a grand gimmick around the band, where each member has their own colour and wears a makeup-star on their face.
