ALBUM REVIEW – RANDOM HAND: RANDOM HAND

I love a super-over-produced, American punk record – this is simply what ska-punk should sound like, in my book (apologies to King Prawn and Judge Dredd). Ten tracks, just over half an hour, short but sweet and high-intensity start-to-finish. That ringing p-bass, the brick-wall compressed horns, the clicky, palm-muted percussive guitar chords clicking through the […]
Leaving her name stuck inside everyone’s mind, Olivia Rodrigo continues to storm her way through the music industry. A child-star from Disney suddenly turned to an international music sensation after the release of her 2021 album, ‘SOUR’, which took over each and every break-up playlist, and handed over the much-loved tracks ‘drivers license’ and ‘deja […]

ALBUM REVIEW – OLIVIA RODRIGO:GUTS

ALBUM REVIEW – COURTNEY BARNETT: END OF THE DAY

Throw away all existing expectations of what Courtney Barnett sounds like. She’s showing us something new. An artist known for her profound lyricism and traditional songwriting prowess, Barnett has flipped the script for her latest album, End of The Day. A fully instrumental album comprising 17 seamless flowing tracks, which explore sound as a texture […]
Lots of lovely releases clamouring for our attention this week. Allow Silent Radio to present our weekly guide. Jonathan Wilson              Eat the Worm    In addition to guitar and vocal performing with Roger Waters’ live band, Wilson has worked as a producer with the likes of Father John Misty and Angel Olsen. ‘Eat the Worm’ offers […]

ALBUM ROUNDUP WEEK ENDING 8 SEPTEMBER 2023

ALBUM REVIEW: SONIC YOUTH – LIVE IN BROOKLYN

From watching them in muddy festival fields in 90s, seeing them across the UK with a network of like minded zine writers and fans on the Dirty tour in 92, to seeing their last UK tour in 2010, it’s fair to say that Sonic Youth have been the musical accompaniment for a vast part of […]
An anonymous source told this reporter, of Yussef Dayes: “He’s heavy on grooves. I first heard him with United Vibrations. After that, he played with Kamaal Williams in the project Yussef Kamaal, which got a lot of recognition by the likes of Giles Peterson. I saw him play a solo tour after that and he’s […]

ALBUM REVIEW – YUSSEF DAYES: BLACK CLASSICAL MUSIC

ALBUM REVIEW: SUPER DUTY TOUGH WORK: PARADIGM SHIFT

The debut album from Canadian art-rap collective, Super Duty Tough Work, sets out to celebrate resistance-based debauchery and internationalism, stating its aim of opposing the homicidal ruling class the planet is forced to endure while not forgetting to have fun. Yes, ‘Paradigm Shift’ is an ambitious record. The content has moments that are as revolutionary […]
No band could have been more suited to performing at a Proms celebrating the centenary of the BBC than Public Service Broadcasting. Their name alone, let alone that their 2013 debut album was titled ‘Inform – Educate – Entertain’, the mantra of original BBC Director General, John Reith, as to the Corporation’s role, make them […]

ALBUM REVIEW: PUBLIC SERVICE BROADCASTING / BBC SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA / JULES BUCKLEY – THIS NEW NOISE

ALBUM REVIEW – PUMA BLUE: HOLY WATERS

Holy Waters is the second album from London singer-songwriter and producer, Puma Blue. In a few words it’s a sombre and melancholic reflection on life and death, yet it’s less morbid than it may at first appear. Describing the album as a “chronicle of the graciousness within each repeated cycle of life, death and rebirth,” […]
The Autumn release schedule limbering up nicely with this week’s selection summarised here. Lathe of Heaven               Bound by Naked Skies American band taking their name from an Ursula Le Guin novel and their literary influences are balanced with their debt to new wave and post-punk. Puma Blue          Holy Waters A chronicle of the graciousness […]

ALBUM ROUNDUP WEEK ENDING 1 SEPTEMBER 2023