ALBUM ROUNDUP WEEK ENDING 22 NOVEMBER 2024

Here are the week’s stellar collection of new releases. Cistern              New Standard              From a group featuring members of N0V3L and Crack Cloud comes a 5-track display of DIY-rock anthem recorded on an 8-track tape machine. The band are defined by tight musicianship, harmonious and dissonant instrumentation, do-it-yourself recording and experimentation. The Attendant              Unit EP              Pete […]
“Just want a girl as cool as Kim Deal” The Dandy Warhols sang in 1997. Not many musicians have had such songs of adulation written about them, but then not every musician has dominated the alternative music scene like Kim Deal. It seems remarkable that this is her first solo album in a musical career […]

ALBUM REVIEW: KIM DEAL – NOBODY LOVES YOU MORE

ALBUM REVIEW – FATHER JOHN MISTY: MAHASHMASHANA

With his 2022 album, ‘Chloë and The Next 20th Century’, it appeared that Father John Misty was trying to dial down the ambiguous signals that had permeated his earlier releases. Its mixture of golden era Hollywood and cruise ship opulence signified an artist happy to embrace the mainstream, an arena for which his outstanding melodicism […]
An ultra busy week with lots of tantalising releases. Here is our summary of what’s what. Xeno & Oaklander     Via Negativa (in the doorway light)               Refined retro-futurist synth pop with a tension between Teutonic, utopian synthetic pop and lyrical narratives of ghosts in silos, ruined mills, and the traumas of mineral excavation. The Green Child          […]

ALBUM ROUNDUP WEEK ENDING 15 NOVEMBER 2024

ALBUM REVIEW – JULIAN MAYORGA: CHAK CHAK CHAK CHAK

What a joy it is to discover a new favourite record label. It can open entire new colourful worlds of sound. Over the past month alone, Glitterbeat Records has offered up an extraordinary collection of new releases, a veritable magic pick and mix. From Turkey has come the psych rock mayhem of BaBa ZuLa’s ‘İstanbul […]
Unquestionably, Tomo Katsurada’s ‘Dream of the Egg’ has the week’s most intriguing concept. It is a collaboration with visual artist Shoko Otake for which Katsurada provides the soundtrack to a 20-page picture book inspired by the 1920’s children’s story, ‘Yume No Tamago (Dream of the Egg)’. In addition to the picture book, the package consists […]

ALBUM REVIEW – TOMO KATSURADA: DREAM OF THE EGG

ALBUM REVIEW – PETER ALEXANDER JOBSON: BURN THE RATION BOOKS OF LOVE

It is rare if not unique that an album lands in the Silent Radio inbox for which Les Dawson is cited as an influence. Fortunately, Peter Alexander Jobson’s ‘Burn The Ration Books of Love’ does not contain any mother-in-law jokes and the piano playing is of a far superior standard to Dawson’s onstage shenanigans. Instead, […]
To release a debut single and announce a debut album not long after, you must have a set of bollocks and confidence in your work which The Wood have. Consisting of scousers Alex Evans and Steve Powell, who met whilst Powell was recording Evans in his ARK recording studio and was blown away with his […]

ALBUM REVIEW – THE WOOD: DAYS

ALBUM ROUNDUP WEEK ENDING 8 NOVEMBER 2024

There is a healthy bundle of new releases this week. Here they are: Our Girl             The Good Kind             New signings to Bella Union, their dynamics permeate the record, from heavy guitars and soaring lead lines to ear worm choruses and intimate vocal moments. Filled with warmth and honesty, The Good Kind is a celebration of […]
The latest release from Analog Africa grapples with a quandary. How can the owner of an independent record label create a project celebrating piracy, normally seen as a curse robbing artists and labels of sales and therefore income? However, in addition to providing an intriguing piece of social history through its accompanying informative booklet, that […]

ALBUM REVIEW – VARIOUS ARTISTS: SUPER DISCO PIRATA – DE TAPITO PARA EL MUNDO 1965-1980