ALBUM REVIEW – BAR ITALIA: TRACEY DENIM

There is a contrariness to Bar Italia. Choosing a name that is difficult to google, more likely to lead to mid-price high street eateries than music, has a wilfulness to it. Calling their debut album ‘Tracey Denim’ shows a similar awkward streak in selecting a common name (unfairly synonymous with being naff) and denim, one […]
For those not fully ensconced in Eurovision, this is another bumper week of releases. Once the votes are in from the Silent Radio jury, we will be waxing lyrical in greater depth about some of these elsewhere in the reviews section but here is our concise guide:  BC Camplight – The Last Rotation of Earth […]

ALBUM RELEASES ROUNDUP WEEK ENDING 12 MAY 2023

ALBUM RELEASES ROUNDUP WEEK ENDING 5 MAY 2023

Those looking to escape blanket Coronation hype could do worse than spend the weekend checking out the bumper crop of albums released this week. Here is Silent Radio’s handy brief guide: Kid Congo Powers and the Near Death Experience – Live at St Kilda A twelve-song live album from a one-time-only show in which Kid […]
Six years have elapsed between the release of Angelica Rockne’s debut album, ‘Queen of San Antonio’, and the emergence of ‘The Rose Society’. While both figure within the ballpark marked Americana, there is a huge difference between them. Her debut was tagged cosmic country, whereas her new collection is much more song-oriented, allowing greater prominence […]

ALBUM REVIEW – ANGELICA ROCKNE: THE ROSE SOCIETY

ALBUM REVIEW – BC CAMPLIGHT: THE LAST ROTATION OF EARTH

There is a long-held theory that immense suffering can act as a catalyst for great art. Brian Christinzio has certainly been given fuel to inspire his music. Since attempting to escape his drug and alcohol addictions in Philadelphia by relocating to Manchester, his trilogy of album releases as BC Camplight for Bella Union had been […]
Showing no signs of winding-down after Record Store Day, April ends with more releases than you could shake a highly adhesive stick at. There is plenty to dip into in our weekly roundup which contains a huge variety, from conventional song structures to the weird and wonderful, from established names to less celebrated artists. Braids […]

ALBUM RELEASES ROUNDUP WEEK ENDING 28 APRIL 2023

ALBUM REVIEW – TINY RUINS: CEREMONY

Tiny Ruins’ latest album, ‘Ceremony’, consists of songs that act as chapters of a saga set on Tāmaki Makaurau’s (aka Auckland’s) Manukau Harbour, known to locals as “Old Murky,” its western fringe of the Waitākere Ranges. The harbour is dirty, neglected and polluted but the peaceful inlets are all tidal flats, shellfish and birdlife. The […]
‘Museum’ is an album that inspires references to lightness, delicacy, cleansing, flowers, breezes and clouds. However, as the average cumulous cloud weighs 500,000 kg, the equivalent of 100 elephants, it is unwise to trust music journalists’ adjectives and metaphors or use them as a guide to life. JFDR is the project of Icelandic experimental singer, […]

ALBUM REVIEW – JFDR: MUSEUM

ALBUM REVIEW: ENTER SHIKARI – A KISS FOR THE WHOLE WORLD

Having released their first album, ‘Take to the Skies’, back in 2007, it’s fair to say that Enter Shikari have had their fair share of experience in the realm of music that is the rock genre. Putting their own electronic spin on heavier music, the band have built a huge amount of support, with over […]
Let’s face it, for all the good social media can do, it can also be an absolute cesspit of garbage, but thankfully in the case of Silver Moth the power of twitter was actually put to good use as these songs developed following twitter exchanges between multi-instrumentalist Elisabeth Elektra and Abrasive Trees songwriter/guitarist Matthew Rochford […]

ALBUM REVIEW: SILVER MOTH – BLACK BAY