Twiddling your thumbs after finishing your A levels? Not if you’re Red Ivory. The South-London teenage four-piece released a new EP, Please Leave, I Need to Wake up Now instead. It’s gritty indie rock that hits you in the face – and the gut – offering confrontation rather than escape. The first notes of opener […]
As this is the only week of the month with a significant number of releases, the latest episode of our releases guide encompasses the entirety of December. 1 December Singer.Mattress.Cat Subtropical Personality Written over the last two years on NYC’s Lower East Side on an old acoustic guitar and recorded in Melbourne, the forthcoming lo-fi […]
As Ellie Rowsell takes centre stage, megaphone in hand, my view is once again blocked by a man scurrying to the bar – a confused mind who thinks beer is more important than listening to one of the most alluring front-women of the 21st Century. I’m not ashamed to admit that hearing “Yuk Foo” live […]
There’s something almost poetic about seeing The Last Dinner Party inside Aviva Studios, the cavernous, concrete warehouse that Factory International has turned into a kind of blank canvas for big, theatrical ideas. Tonight, the space feels less like an industrial arts hub and more like a forgotten churchyard: mossy rocks scattered across the stage, rusted-looking railings, fabric and ropes hanging […]
‘Dreamflasher,’ the sixth track on 22-year-old rapper/singer/producer Jane Remover’s third studio album, Revengeseekerz, begins with the satisfying whistle that plays when you cross the finish line in Mariokart DS. The listener is then bombarded with an onslaught of noise, including a sample of their own 2024 track ‘Flash in the Pan,’ that sounds like Remover […]
As album releases diminish to a trickle, December is a good time for Silent Radio to catch up on some of the seriously great albums we were unable to cover at the time. First up is Emma Pollock’s ‘Begging The Night To Take Hold’ which was submerged by the end of September rush, pretty much […]
Getting into the O2 Victoria Warehouse was business as usual, bag search, body scan, ticket check then to find the nearest bar; only this time I wish I hadn’t. For a single drink it set me back nearly ten whole Great British pounds, physically hurting my soul and my bank. Do they know we are […]
As TTSSFU hit Salford’s White Hotel with their scuzzed up dream pop and dark basslines, Mat Coffey was down the front capturing the action. Here is the night in pictures, the last two shots being of support acts Lonnie Gunn and Maximillian Tanner respectively.
Red Ivory Please Leave, I Need To Wake Up Now Five track EP is claustrophobic and at points almost static, before freeway-falling into a frenzy of interlocking, distorted guitar, howling vocals, and thrashing cymbals. Jesse Sykes and the Sweet Hereafter Forever I’ve Been Being Born A suite of emotive songs from an open heart, dwelling […]
There are many ways people get excited for a gig, for some it may be that first step into the venue and seeing the stage, for others maybe waking up on the day knowing there is a gig that night, for me, however, it was when a pair of luminous foam earplugs were plonked in […]
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ALBUM REVIEW - RADHIKA: CINE-POP
ALBUM REVIEW - MY PRECIOUS BUNNY: A MOMENT IN MY EYES
ALBUM REVIEW - GUTTERSNIPE: EXTINCTION BURST!
ALBUM REVIEW - PETER GABRIEL: LIVE AT WOMAD 1982
ALBUM REVIEW - BROKEN SOCIAL SCENE: REMEMBER THE HUMANS
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