ALBUM REVIEW – DANIEL JOHNSTON: ALIVE IN NEW YORK

Mastered by the enigmatic Kramer, ‘Daniel Johnston Alive in New York City’ is a joyous listen filled with laughs, cheers and a feeling of great positivity I have not heard on a record for quite some time. Recorded in New York circa 2000, this live album showcases everything that people love about the “outsider” musician; […]
Less than a year since her last studio album, Red Moon In Venus, a vibrant r&b project debuting at #4 on the ‘Billboard 200’ with a unique Latin American flavour including viral hits such as ‘Moonlight’ in addition to her incredible collaborations with Summer Walker and Don Toliver, Kali Uchis returns with her fourth studio […]

ALBUM REVIEW – KALI UCHIS: ORQUÍDEAS

ALBUM REVIEW – LIZZIE NO: HALFSIES

Despite contributions from immensely talented black artists (Lead Belly, Odetta, Elizabeth Cotten, Ma Rainey), folk music can often be a genre that enables and celebrates white mediocrity. White folk singers depend on the exhausted formula of southern drawl and a broken heart to fulfil their dreams of releasing a cliché folk track and frankly, they’re […]
Gently easing us into the new year, here are the releases from the first two weeks of 2024. Bill Ryder-Jones                 Iechyd Da            Welsh for good health or cheers, his fifth album is rich in scope, at times joyous, grand and sweeping, at others heartbreaking, intimate and tender. Cash & Carter    No Use Praying Five […]

ALBUM ROUNDUP WEEK ENDING 12 JANUARY 2024

ALBUM REVIEW: BILL RYDER-JONES – IECHYD DA

If the script writing boffins in TV land ever needed an artistic triumph over adversity series with a twist, they could do no better than looking towards the brilliant Bill Ryder-Jones for a gripping tale. From his early musical beginnings as a teen in The Coral, to taking time out from music to focus on […]
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 […]

ALBUM REVIEW: PETER GABRIEL: I/O

2024 PREVIEWS

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 […]
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 […]

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

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

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 […]
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 […]

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