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 […]
“Whenever people ask where are you from? I say Manchester”, says Brian ‘BC Camplight’ Christinzio, as we sit in a bar in Chorlton in the late afternoon sunshine discussing his love of his adopted hometown, and the upheavals which have led to his astounding new album ‘The Last Rotation Of Earth’. It’s been a long […]

INTERVIEW: BC CAMPLIGHT – WE CHAT ABOUT THE STUNNING NEW ALBUM ‘LAST ROTATION OF EARTH’, AND HOW HIS MUSIC SPRINGS FROM SO MUCH MORE THAN THE PREDICTABLE TRIUMPH OVER ADVERSITY TAG.

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 […]
Rave collective, Acid Klaus, has premiered a new single, ‘You’re a Freak’, taken from an EP of the same name which will be released on Yard Act’s Zen F.C. label later this summer. Acid Klaus is the project of Adrian Flanagan (founder of The Moonlandingz and The Eccentronic Research Council) together with a variety of […]

NEWS – ACID KLAUS ANNOUNCE NEW SINGLE ‘YOU’RE A FREAK’

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, […]
Scunthorpe raised brothers, Rupert and Henry Stansall, whose earlier work was produced by Rick Rubin announce the release of their latest single, ‘Bullet Blues’. It is a taster for forthcoming album, ‘Ten Paces’, released on 2nd June 2023 via Yep Roc Records. ‘Bullet Blues’ is a timeless stripped-back track featuring Roy Orbison-influenced vocals accompanied by […]

NEWS: RUEN BROTHERS REVEAL NEW SINGLE ‘BULLET BLUES’