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

RECOMMENDED ALBUM RELEASES ROUNDUP WEEK ENDING 21 APRIL 2023

Such is the rich array of album releases each week that it is impossible for the industrious busy bees at Silent Radio to cover them all in our preferred in-depth review style. However, we will now be providing an additional roundup of releases that have caught our eyes, beginning with this selection set for release […]
When Everything But The Girl released their last album, ‘Temperamental’, 24 years ago, the idea that I would eagerly anticipate a new record by them would have been inconceivable. Even though they are only a few years older than me, I dismissed them as ‘old people’s music’ as the sounds I enjoyed thrived on dissonance […]

ALBUM REVIEW – EVERYTHING BUT THE GIRL: FUSE

ALBUM REVIEW: THE SHITS – YOU’RE A MESS

I started my musical journey I want to say eight years ago with listening to psych music from the absolute rock gods Smashing Pumpkins. I argue I haven’t dropped the sound or wave, if you will, that entices you into a journey of experiencing music. A kind that widens the horizon of peculiar music genres. […]
The organ is an instrument with a rich and varied quality used in settings as diverse as churches and horror films, both in differing ways conjuring a spectral quality. In pop music, it enriched the bounciest 1960s sounds and garage rock. Laura Loriga’s debut album, ‘Vever’, foregrounds the organ, augmented by instruments such as nyckelharpa […]

ALBUM REVIEW – LAURA LORIGA: VEVER

ALBUM REVIEW – DAVE OKUMU & THE 7 GENERATIONS: I CAME FROM LOVE

‘I Came From Love’ is a massively ambitious record. In its attempt to map the Black experience through ancestry, the legacy of slavery, the impact of living in an unjust society and Dave Okumu’s family history, its scope is similar to Steve McQueen’s magisterial ‘Small Axe’ collection of films. A novelistic ambition is illustrated in […]
The Hold Steady may have emerged in the early 2000’s yet what set them apart from the other (also amazing) bands which emerged from NY in that era, was that their sound seemed to come from a different inspirational source completely, less spiky garage rock, preferring instead to drink from a similar well as Springsteen […]

ALBUM REVIEW: THE HOLD STEADY – THE PRICE OF PROGRESS