ALBUM ROUNDUP WEEK ENDING 4 APRIL 2025

Plenty of top releases clamouring for your attention this week. Get your lugholes around these. Buffet Lunch                 Perfect Hit!    Ramshackle odysseys of observational charm from Scotland/Newcastle four-piece on Upset The Rhythm. In their wonky melodicism and strange but beguiling sense of rhythm, they are a perfect fit for one of England’s most consistently oddball […]
Love is and has never been linear. It’s a complicated obstacle course, some moments will thrill you with intense, fascinating sensations. But other times, it can drown you in its complicated, existential drawl, leeching away at you until it’s feasted on your very soul. …ok that was dramatic. Trust me when I say, love isn’t, […]

ALBUM REVIEW – GIRLPUPPY: SWEETNESS

ALBUM REVIEW – LUCY DACUS: FOREVER IS A FEELING

If you’re someone like me, you miss Boygenius. I miss Boygenius. So, when the news broke that Julien Baker and Phoebe Bridgers were going to feature for backing vocals on Forever is a Feeling the fourth studio album from Lucy Dacus, you hit the roof with excitement. The album cover is that of a painted […]
A tumultuous week for new releases. ‘Spoilt for choice’ describes it nicely. Here is our selection. Destroyer        Dan’s Boogie Spectacle-laden pop epics, personal piano ballads, and smouldering works of mood that blur the lines between song and novel and cinema. Great, Grandpa           Patience, Moonbeam             Their new album contains signature elements – their nontraditional song structures, […]

ALBUM ROUNDUP WEEK ENDING 28 MARCH 2025

ALBUM REVIEW – PERFUME GENIUS: GLORY

Listening to ‘Glory’, the seventh album from Perfume Genius, it becomes apparent why Mike Hadreas’ performance moniker is so appropriate. There is a subtlety to the music and especially his voice that lingers. Initially seeming wispy and fragile, there is more substance than originally seems apparent. It is the equivalent of a scent that strikes […]
There is a nursery rhyme like quality to CocoRosie’s music. It starts from a place of apparent simplicity and charm but underneath there are darker aspects. It would be easy to be swept along by the bricolage of sounds, a veritable junkyard of cheap keyboards and dismiss it as playground pop. Yet in reality, they […]

ALBUM REVIEW – COCOROSIE: LITTLE DEATH WISHES

ALBUM REVIEW – HANNAH COHEN: EARTHSTAR MOUNTAIN

When an album has such a high-quality, diverse set of influences (Dusty Springfield, Gal Costa, Minnie Riperton, Ennio Morricone, Neil Young and Sly & The Family Stone) and an individual way of realising them, it would require a complex mathematical formula to explain what has happened. It would not be fair to say that Hannah […]
A heavy, thumping riff. A strong, pounding drumbeat. That glamourous metal swagger of Justin Hawkins. The Darkness are back and ready to rock your socks off like they have many times before. The opening track to Dreams on Toast, ‘Rock and Roll Party Cowboy’, is the perfect start to any glam metal album. Loaded with […]

ALBUM REVIEW – THE DARKNESS: DREAMS ON TOAST

ALBUM REVIEW – SPELLLING: PORTRAIT OF MY HEART

Four years after the release of The Turning Wheel (2021), Tia Cabral dares to fiddle with the work of God in Portrait of My Heart (2025, Sacred Bones Records); creating a unique record in her catalogue that takes distance with their predecessors without losing identity. Cabral is cautious in Portrait of my Heart: the tracks […]
Silent Radio’s guide to the week’s new releases. Benefits            Constant Noise          The band take a different approach to the in-your-face polemics of their debut. Recalibrated as a two-piece featuring founding members Kingsley Hall and Robbie Major. The album is still angry, the band is still angry, but rather than regurgitate what they’ve already done, it […]

ALBUM ROUNDUP WEEK ENDING 21 MARCH 2025