ALBUM ROUNDUP WEEK ENDING 23 FEBRUARY 2024

It is a particularly fine week for new releases. Here is Silent Radio’s guide. The Children’s Hour        Going Home       Trio consisting of Josephine Foster, David Pajo and Andy Bar infusing elements of psychedelia and The Velvets, while the focus remains on Foster’s soulful voice and vivid lyricism. Nadine Shah      Filthy Underneath            Her first album since […]
Stereolab were one of the most significant bands to emerge in the first half of the 1990s. Initially, no-one sounded like them. It was a period where so-called independent music was dominated by grunge and then Britpop, both regressive and conservative forces. In contrast, Stereolab’s use of motorik rhythms at a time when krautrock was […]

ALBUM REVIEW – LAETITIA SADIER: ROOTING FOR LOVE

ALBUM REVIEW – LAIR: NGELAR

Lair are a six-piece Indonesian psych rock/funk outfit hailing from Jatiwangi, West Java. Their name is pronounced Lah-eer (useful information for requesting their often-startling album in your local independent record store) and is a local dialect version of the word ‘lahir’ meaning birth. They take inspiration from classical/traditional Panturan Tarling which is a form of […]
Records do not have to sound like the circumstances of their creation. Mary Timony’s ‘Untame The Tiger’ was recorded during a two-year period bookended by the death of her parents and which saw the dissolution of a long-term relationship. It was written on head-clearing bike rides and long walks while she was the primary carer […]

ALBUM REVIEW – MARY TIMONY: UNTAME THE TIGER

ALBUM REVIEW – PERSHER: SLEEP WELL

CAUTION: you will not ‘Sleep Well’ to this. This isn’t down to Persher not playing well enough or serenading the listener as well as they could be on their debut, oh no: this electronic-metal-screamo-experimental duo are just having you on. As do a few of their songs’ zany names – my personal favourite being ‘Medieval […]
Dolly Parton once said “If you want the rainbow, you gotta put up with the rain”, my Aunty Annie once said “country music, the tunes are great but the songs are depressing, first the couple split up, then the bills pile up, then the dog dies!” Two views there, one from Tennessee and one from […]

ALBUM REVIEW: GRANDADDY – BLU WAV

ALBUM ROUNDUP WEEK ENDING 16 FEBRUARY 2024

Silent Radio surveys this week’s highly desirable new releases. William Doyle   Springs Eternal Art pop which across its 11 tracks hear from narrators teetering on the precipice of global disaster, heartbreak, addiction, indoctrination and mental illness, until they pass into the great unknown. Grandaddy         Blu Wav               The title is meant to be a literal mash-up […]
Omni fans will have a broad idea of what to expect from their fourth album. It will consist of a set of musical miniatures that suggest a strand of post-punk influences shorn of retro leanings, boasting twisting and chopping guitar riffs, staccato rhythms and lean melodies that inspire a desire to throw shapes. However, within […]

ALBUM REVIEW – OMNI: SOUVENIR

ALBUM REVIEW – PANGHALINA: LAVA

Who doesn’t like some free jazz improv? Oh, that’s right – most people. It’s a very-much maligned and derided form and in some cases there’s definitely a stuffy or cliquey or chin-strokey vibe that can be really off-putting, particularly in a live setting. There’s also the valid question of “what is it for”? Is the […]
Hailing from Brooklyn- New York, The Thing consists of Michael Carter, Jack Bradley, Zane Accord, and a recent inclusion of Lucas Ebeling on the drums. With influences spanning from The Kinks and the Grand Funk Railroad before expanding the taste to that of the Blacks Keys and King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard. First playing […]

ALBUM REVIEW – THE THING: THE THING IS