ALBUM REVIEW: BLACK SPIDERS – CAN’T DIE, WON’T DIE

Black Spiders’ attempt to combine hard rock, shoegaze, and grunge in their debut album ‘Can’t Die Won’t Die’ ’succeeds, thanks to the psychedelic overlay. Banger after banger is played all the way through just like a blend of Concrete Blonde, ZZ top and Danzig.  A small taste of this album in the initial push gives […]
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 […]

ALBUM REVIEW – BAR ITALIA: TRACEY DENIM

ALBUM RELEASES ROUNDUP WEEK ENDING 12 MAY 2023

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 […]
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 […]

ALBUM RELEASES ROUNDUP WEEK ENDING 5 MAY 2023

ALBUM REVIEW – ANGELICA ROCKNE: THE ROSE SOCIETY

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 […]
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 […]

ALBUM REVIEW – BC CAMPLIGHT: THE LAST ROTATION OF EARTH

ALBUM RELEASES ROUNDUP WEEK ENDING 28 APRIL 2023

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 […]
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 […]

ALBUM REVIEW – TINY RUINS: CEREMONY

ALBUM REVIEW – JFDR: MUSEUM

‘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, […]
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 […]

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