ALBUM REVIEW – AOIFE O’DONOVAN: ALL MY FRIENDS

In the United Kingdom, women couldn’t open a bank account until 1975 (the same year they invented the digital camera, for context). Taking it back a few decades earlier for those of us that are ill informed, The Suffragettes were a group of women that tirelessly campaigned for the right to vote and for general […]
To celebrate World Sleep Day, here are a selection of releases to fulfil your wildest dreams. Pete Astor           Tall Stories & New Religions       Recasting some of the less expected songs from his forty-year career, both with The Loft and Weather Prophets as well as solo songs. Sam Lee               Songdreaming  Folk musician produced by Bernard Butler […]

ALBUM ROUNDUP WEEK ENDING 15 MARCH 2024

ALBUM REVIEW – BEANS: BOOTS N CATS

Beans are a Melbourne-based garage band that for the past week has truly blown me away with their amazing, unique sound of psychedelia mixed with funk and a dash of Australian garage-rock with their brand-new LP ‘Boots n Cats’. The album is so vivid with its layers of prominent and fantastic drum work, distorted and […]
Sweetly scathing and swift with a verse, Caity Baser epitomises the new age of whistle-stop pop. Her ‘Still Learning’ mixtape plays out every almost romance, delicate decision and reinvention of spirit with witty abandon; entire expanses of thought all in under three minutes a piece. Angelic vocals turn into acidic rap on a dime – […]

ALBUM REVIEW – CAITY BASER: STILL LEARNING

ALBUM REVIEW – SAM LEE: SONGDREAMING

Have you ever felt like disappearing from society? Or had that exigent urge to run away from the noise of city life? Maybe you’d like to trade the feeling of disappointment associated with the current political climate for a feeling of exhilaration by joining a commune somewhere in the woods and living out your days […]
Jarring synths, war march drums and German vocals about god knows what, it’s not hard to see why I like this release. Of course, different from a studio album in nature, there’s no overriding theme or story here. It’s just a collection of early singles which, to be fair, sound like they belong together. That’s […]

ALBUM REVIEW – XMAL DEUTSCHLAND: EARLY SINGLES (1981-1982_

ALBUM REVIEW – PIXIES: PIXIES AT THE BBC, 1988-91

Pixies influence on music is undeniable. They played a major role in developing the loud/quiet template, with the emphasis on the noisy part, that the likes of Nirvana went on to exploit commercially. On a personal level, they were my sound of 1988 and their music is entwined forever with memories of emotionally turbo-charged gigs […]
Plenty to choose from this week as Silent Radio surveys the latest releases. Sarah Jane Morris            The Sisterhood An artist best known for her contribution to one of the all-time classic sad yet euphoric sounding hits, The Communards’ version of ‘Don’t Leave Me This Way, offers a well-thought out and realised project celebrating ten female […]

ALBUM ROUNDUP WEEK ENDING 8 MARCH 2024

ALBUM REVIEW – DRUNK MUMS: BEER BABY

After a four-year hiatus, Drunk Mums return with their fourth studio album ‘Beer Baby.’ Known for their raucous and rowdy live shows that took them from America and the UK to the likes of Asia and Oceania as well as supporting Amyl and the Sniffers and Guitar Wolf. Consisting of Jake ‘Dingo’ Doyle and Dean […]
Traditionally, the second album is the difficult one for bands who have achieved initial success, full of anxieties about how to retain the qualities that have made them successful without producing a carbon copy or drifting too far from their original template. Having effortlessly surmounted that hurdle many years ago, Kaiser Chiefs celebrate their longevity […]

ALBUM REVIEW – KAISER CHIEFS’ EASY EIGHTH ALBUM