ALBUM REVIEW: PETER GABRIEL: I/O

Over a couple of decades since his last original project, Peter Gabriel finally releases his most recent and highly anticipated album. i/o (or input/output) features intense subject matter on areas such as humanity’s position in society, the complicated ethics behind the justice system, the connection between astrology and people, and many other introspective topics. Since […]
As a website with a continual thirst for new music, each year brings us the anticipation of new artists that will establish themselves as favourites. Hopefully, our end of year Best of 2024 lists will consist of many names that are currently unfamiliar to us but, in the meantime, there are plenty of more familiar […]

2024 PREVIEWS

ALBUM REVIEW – VARIOUS: MOPING IN STYLE: A TRIBUTE TO ADAM GREEN

Dedicating an album to covering the work of one artist can often mean striking a difficult balance. Maintaining the heart of what makes the originals so persistent whilst not coming forward with a carbon copy is extremely difficult. What Moping in Style has going for it is a pretty stellar cast of musicians ready to […]
In many respects, 2023 was a diabolical year. Fortunately, music provided considerable solace and we were spoilt for choice in nominating our favourite albums of the year. We are pleased to announce that BC Camplight’s ‘The Last Rotation of Earth’ is our album of the year. He has been a long-standing favourite at Silent Radio […]

SILENT RADIO’S TOP FORTY ALBUMS OF THE YEAR – 2023

ALBUM REVIEW – FULL OF HELL AND NOTHING: WHEN NO BIRDS SANG

2023 has been a year of collaboration for Full of Hell. The band’s joint effort with Primitive Man, Suffocating Hallucination, a split EP with Gasp in August and now, to close the year off, When No Birds Sang. The record is a melding of minds with Philadelphia’s sullen, grungey shoegaze outfit Nothing. Full of Hell […]
Having reached the point where the industry assumes the music buying public is only interested in streaming the Christmas hits of yesteryear, the new releases have slowed to a trickle so Silent Radio has bundled the year’s remaining offerings into a little bundle of joy. 8 Cymande             Second Time Around      Reissued 1973 album from Black […]

ALBUM ROUNDUP DECEMBER 2023

ALBUM REVIEW – MISS CHAIN AND THE BROKEN HEELS: STORMS

The comparison with The Beatles is often a death wish for bands who don’t live up to the claim often slung on by PR companies in order to sell albums and gather interest within the artist they represent, which is a trap I often fall into as I either need to disprove the claims or […]
We have had some incredible rock albums released this year. None of them, however, are like what Cobra Spell have conjured up on their debut album ‘666.’ This is the most 80s influenced album you will hear in 2023. It is full of life and energy, as well as sexual lyrics that are synonymous with […]

ALBUM REVIEW – COBRA SPELL: 666

ALBUM ROUNDUP WEEK ENDING 1 DECEMBER 2023

The last significant week for releases prior to Christmas, here is Silent Radio’s guide. Peter Gabriel     i/o          His first album in 20 years, its songs tackling life and the universe, our connection to the world around us, but also the passing of time, mortality and grief, alongside such themes as injustice, surveillance and the roots […]
The debut album from Harp, former Midlake singer Tim Smith’s new act, bears a healthy imprint of Anglophilia. The album title reflects his fascination with England, or Albion as it was known in former times, especially the Medieval and Renaissance eras, together with its landscapes, gardens, villages, grey skies and mist on the moors. Musically, […]

ALBUM REVIEW – HARP: ALBION