ALBUM REVIEW – BABY QUEEN: QUARTER LIFE CRISIS

An artist as unique as Baby Queen is incredibly hard to find. From her lyrics, to her music videos, to even her stage name, it’s all a bit out of the ordinary. However, there’s no doubt she pulls it off, and I’d bet her nearly one million monthly listeners on Spotify would agree. Baby Queen, […]
For a band to release a compilation of B-sides and it be considered one of the best albums of the 90’s, it stands testament to show how Oasis are one of the United Kingdom’s greatest musical achievements. 25 years on, it is still hard to believe that the songs featured weren’t deemed good enough to […]

ALBUM REVIEW – OASIS: THE MASTERPLAN

ALBUM REVIEW – ART FEYNMAN: BE GOOD THE CRAZY BOYS

Art Feynman is the recording alias of conceptual artist and producer, Luke Temple. In his latest album, ‘Be Good The Crazy Boys’, both skillsets are utilised. The theoretical underpinning of art is apparent in narratives about fearing the end of the world, albeit through the guise of an unhinged narrator, while the production inspiration comes […]
For those who think that ‘War and Peace’ is an annoyingly slim novella, we offer Silent Radio’s latest roundup of new releases. It is chaos out there. Moses Yoofee Trio           Ocean   Very pleasing album from a trio consisting of pianist/keyboardist/producer Moses Yoofee, bassist Roman Klobe-Barangă and drummer Noah Fürbringer, fusing jazz, hip hop, RnB, and […]

ALBUM ROUNDUP WEEK ENDING 3 NOVEMBER 2023

ALBUM REVIEW – SMOKE FAIRIES: CARRIED IN SOUND

‘Carried In Sound’, the sixth album by Smoke Fairies, was recorded at home in a terraced house with the volume turned down to protect the neighbours. Recorded at the dining room table using a SM38 microphone and an old laptop, it incorporates whatever instruments were available, including a broken snare-drum borrowed from a nine-year-old neighbour, […]
With an extra hour available this weekend, there is more time for catching up on this week’s releases. Mint Field           Aprender a Sur Excellent Mexico City band creating an enticing blend of avant dream pop and shoegaze with some touches of trip hop that explore the nostalgia and melancholy of daily life with complex rhythms, […]

ALBUM ROUNDUP WEEK ENDING 27 OCTOBER 2023

ALBUM REVIEW – LEO ROBINSON: THE TEMPLE

Leo Robinson’s ‘The Temple’ has been garnering understandable comparisons to Richard Dawson. While Dawson is an almost unique presence in the music scene, there are elements to Robinson’s work that justify the link. They both take elements of folk music, especially the mythology, and turn it into a whole that merges the past with contemporary […]
A Little Touch of Schleicher in the Night’ is packed with songs that instantly grab the attention and never let go. Often it will be via memorable, if not downright odd, opening lines as exemplified by the record’s first track, ‘Montagnard People’ which begins with Katie von Schleicher singing “when you’re mourning the past, you’ll […]

ALBUM REVIEW – KATIE VON SCHLEICHER: A LITTLE TOUCH OF SCHLEICHER IN THE NIGHT

ALBUM ROUNDUP WEEK ENDING 20 OCTOBER 2023

Our roundup of another busy week of new releases including several outstanding albums. Pip Blom              Bobbie With her third album, the ever-impressive Blom moves in a synth-led direction inspired by Micachu and the Shapes. The album includes duets with Alex Kapranos and Personal Trainer’s Willem Smit that work especially well. Emma Anderson              Pearlies Co-founder of […]
The best music can banish even the weariest mood. That has certainly been true for this album from Leon Keita, the latest release from Analog Africa, a German-based label that over the past 16 years has been devoted to excavating some of the finest music from the African continent made during the period from the […]

ALBUM REVIEW – LEON KEITA: LEON KEITA