ALBUM ROUNDUP WEEK ENDING 17 JANUARY 2025

A few more releases to graze upon this week. Here is our guide: The Weather Station               Humanhood  Written during one of the most difficult periods of Lindeman’s life and rendered with a rock band with improvisational chops just as she began to recover by reckoning with a complicated truth: Sometimes, life simply tries to dismantle […]
In the four years since Tunng’s last album, ‘Dead Club’, Mike Lindsay has had an inspired period. In addition to his collaboration with Laura Marling as LUMP and an album from his supergroup Supershapes, his production paw-prints have been all over some of the finest albums of the 2020s: Anna B Savage’s ‘in/FLUX’, William Doyle’s […]

ALBUM REVIEW – TUNNG: LOVE YOU ALL OVER AGAIN

ALBUM REVIEW – JASMINE.4.T: YOU ARE THE MORNING

As the first UK signing to Phoebe Bridgers’ Saddest Factory Records, Jasmine.4.t’s ‘You Are The Morning’ comes with quite a weight of expectation. It is co-produced by Bridgers alongside her boygenius bandmates, Lucy Dacus and Julien Baker, who also provide backing vocals. However, it is very much the vision of Manchester based singer-songwriter and trans […]
Francesca Pidgeon is no stranger to accolades from Silent Radio. She is part of BC Camplight’s band who were recipients of our album of 2023 for ‘The Last Rotation of Earth’. Her new album as Dilettante, ‘Life of the Party’, makes an early claim for recognition on our 2025 list. It is a record inspired […]

ALBUM REVIEW – DILETTANTE: LIFE OF THE PARTY

ALBUM REVIEW – DELIGHTS: IF HEAVEN LOOKS A LITTLE LIKE THIS

Manchester outfit ‘Delights’ have been on my radar since they released ‘Sometimes, Lately’ over 5 years ago which offered a blend of dreampop and indie whilst sounding fresh with a retro twist. The group is made up of Adam Maxwell (Vocals), Ben Squires (Guitarist), Ben Kirkland (Bassist), Leo Willis (Drummer), and Cameron Stephenson (Percussionist). Consistently […]
Brighton based Lambrini Girls offer a raucous punk debut which musically isn’t anything new, but it certainly attempts to get in your face. I like that. It’s not my favourite vial of post punk in the world. That shouting-in-a-southern-accent-core, which has entered the alt indie sphere in recent years, can rub me up the wrong […]

ALBUM REVIEW – LAMBRINI GIRLS: WHO LET THE DOGS OUT

ALBUM ROUNDUP WEEK ENDING 10 JANUARY 2025

A week of tentatively lowering a toe into the waters of 2025 albums before the ensuing flood of new releases coming later this month. Bridget Hayden and the Apparitions           Cold Blows The Rain               The reinterpreted traditional folk songs that make up Cold Blows the Rain are shaped by the land and the weather. Wrapped in […]
Anyone for some ‘Pale Vegan Hip Pain’, or a ‘Fanzine Made Of Flesh’? Yes, it’s the return of those brilliant Scots post rock pioneers Mogwai, complete with another dazzling array of utter genius song titles. It’s hard to believe that they’re celebrating their thirty-year anniversary, with that milestone arriving on the back of their last […]

ALBUM REVIEW: MOGWAI – THE BAD FIRE

ALBUM REVIEW – PARCHMAN PRISON PRAYER: ANOTHER MISSISSIPPI SUNDAY MORNING

It already seems certain that in 2025 Glitterbeat Records will maintain their reputation for having the most wonderfully eclectic selection of releases. For the first two months of the year, they have releases lined-up from Malian desert blues artist Samba Toure, Korean composer and multi-instrumentalist Park Jiha, and Polish post-punk group Trupa Trupa. First up, […]
I’m sure that Duster’s career trajectory will be studied by PRs for years to come. The now somewhat commonplace phenomenon of the ‘relatively obscure 90s alternative band to TikTok darlings’ upswing is exemplified by this band. With a consistent output of lo-fi, lowkey slowcore in the 90s, Duster, in another universe, would’ve been a small […]

ALBUM REVIEW – DUSTER: IN DREAMS