Silent Radio – 27/10/2020 – Freebie Jeebies

Join Ian Burke for another hour of music you can get your hands on for whatever you can afford to pay for it. As always, if you like something in here and can support the artists please do. TRACK LISTING DJ Boy Drama – Make It Werk / Lip Critic – Like A Lemon! / La Pieta – La Moyenne / Sonnyjim – Swim / H8 Mile – Subway To Hell / Bad Spy – Heat Death of the Universe / Gabe Goodman – Unlovable / Cliff Child – Thrir/Fjorir... Read More

INTERVIEW: SICK DUCKS

One’s rightward vision is left temporarily enfeebled by misconstrued tomato (chilli), the situational table is laden with culinary utensils both clean and not, while boiled (9 minutes?) poultry-offerings linger within tarnished cardboard bespoke for their form and a sleeve bearing the late John Denver’s image gazes upwards at lighting courtesy of the accessible switch helping to illuminate where the sun cannot. Present for discussion are 66.66666666% (R?) of the above-titledRight…... Read More

ALBUM REVIEW: THIS IS THE KIT – OFF OFF ON

I don’t trust people who say they like all types of music. That is a pretty, blanket statement. I like food but it doesn’t mean I like eating all food. There will inevitably be some music that I don’t want to listen to. However, I can see the merits of most music even if I don’t particularly like it. A case in point being Folk music which, I sometimes find a little too predictable or twee but never in the case of This is the Kit whose songs, while featuring the standard... Read More

ALBUM REVIEW: TWISTED ANKLE

Twisted Ankle’s self-titled debut album is determined to wriggle its way out of any boxes you might want to put it in. Over the course of eleven songs many different musical avenues find themselves explored, though all of them are loud and dirty. Opening song ‘(All My Life I Wanted To Be A) Mortgage’ sets out the general shape of the tracks to come, angular guitar riffs cutting through an underlying mass of sound created by the bass and drums. Each track disrupts... Read More

ALBUM REVIEW: THE GREEN CHILD – SHIMMERING BASSET

The story of The Green Child is a fascinating one with members Raven Mahon and Mikey Young meeting in California before Raven moved to Australia to work with influential Australian musician Mikey on the Mornington Peninsula, south of Melbourne.  Since the move, The Green Child have already made one album and ‘Shimmering Basset’ is their latest which is released on the day of writing, 16th October. The new album is an evolution focusing on more intricate musical elements,... Read More

ALBUM REVIEW: MAGICK MOUNTAIN – WEIRD FEELINGS

Leeds band Magick Mountain are a new and exciting act that have concocted fuzzy, psychedelic tracks that result in a masterclass enough to make any fan of this genre stop and marvel. Their new album Weird Feelings is set for release on October 23rd and is going to be something special.  Immediately, ‘Bart Cobain’, with no warning, hits you forming the shape for the rest of the album which is, even so early on, very accomplished. The strength of the instruments teamed... Read More

ALBUM REVIEW: SCAPHOID – ABSENT PASSAGES

Scaphoid’s Absent Passages, is an interesting and impressive album –even more so because it’s a solo project arranged for full band with creator Matt Hobart playing every note.  Unfortunately, even though I know people who will really enjoy it, most of the observations I can make about Absent Passages are technical and critical, because as good as it is, and despite obviously being a labour of love, the album strikes me as more of a showcase: a piece of craft, rather than... Read More

Silent Radio – 20/10/2020 – Freebie Jeebies

Ian Burke is here to bring you another 17 songs available to download somewhere on the internet for whatever amount of money you think it is right to exchange for it. TRACK LISTING Julia Jacklin – Pressure To Party / Home Counties – Dad Bod / Draags – Morsel / Guilt Variant – Capacity / Summerhouse – Amber Glow / Kicksie – Castle In The Air / Weatherbox – Hood Up In The Sunshine / Daisy-Chain – Wine / Billy Cobb –... Read More

ALBUM REVIEW: BILL CALLAHAN – GOLD RECORD

“Hello I’m Johnny Cash” sings Bill Callahan as the opening line on ‘Pigeons’ the first track on his new album ‘Gold Record’. Perhaps a cheeky nod to those who have noted that over the years Bill Callahan has slowly transitioned from indie rock quirkiness with his Smog output into  more mellowed, yet no less acerbic, americana style tunes of recent years. Or it could just be a cheeky reference to one of his heroes, either way, those dulcet vocal tones of Callahan’s... Read More

Silent Radio – 13/10/2020 – Freebie Jeebies

This week, Ian Burke has another 17 songs to present to you available on a pay-what-you-want basis. Have a listen and you might just uncover something you love. TRACK LISTING Deerhoof – Love-Lore 2 / Oblivian Substanshall – Medium Advertisements / Unthotof – Cucci-Ianucci / Natalie Evans – In Trees / Morfar – The Swan And The Crow / Shikari – Post Student Syndrome / Math The Band – Wet Cement / I Love Your Lifestyle –... Read More