ALBUM REVIEW – KATATONIA: ON NIGHTMARES AS EXTENSIONS OF THE WAKING STATE

When a band is known for innovating a certain genre of music, their fans and the general public would expect them to solely play that genre. Nowadays, more and more artists like to become more innovative with their music and go outside of their one genre they have been shaping for years or even decades. […]
Welsh noise rock outfit Mclusky’s fourth studio album The World Is Still Here and So Are We is a defining statement as indicated by its title. As the band’s first album in 21 years – coming a quarter of a century after first releasing their debut album – it acts as the band’s studio comeback […]

ALBUM REVIEW – MCLUSKY: THE WORLD IS STILL HERE AND SO ARE WE

ALBUM REVIEW – PIPPA BLUNDELL: COMMON THREAD

At Silent Radio, our editorial approach is usually the opposite of the traditional algorithm. Instead of suggesting that if you like a particular artist you will also enjoy something broadly similar, we say just because you are fond of a particular type of music there is no reason why you should not be smitten by […]
Victoria Warehouse has always been one of my favourite venues. The exposed brick, the industrial charm, the rawness of it all – it’s the kind of place that brings out the best in a band. Or at least, it should. When Wet Leg first burst onto the scene, they were electric, weird, witty, offbeat and […]

LIVE REVIEW: WET LEG – VICTORIA WAREHOUSE: 29/05/2025

ALBUM REVIEW – CAROLINE: CAROLINE 2

Every now and again, you come across an album so breath-taking that just the thought of articulating the profound sensations and emotions it evokes in you is enough to deter you from doing it at all. Perhaps irrationally, you fear, in trying to describe the music, failing to do it justice, or even taking away […]
A busy week full of top-quality releases. Here is our round up. Goddess           Goddess           A new collaborative project curated by Fay Milton, drummer with Savages. It an epic 10-track opus of post-punk, electronica, dream-pop and indie-rock, the album is performed by a revolving cast of vocalists, bringing their own unique flavour and flair to each […]

ALBUM ROUNDUP WEEK ENDING 30 MAY 2025

FEATURE – ECUADORIAN MUSIC – PART 1

One of our Manchester-based writers, Alejandro Burbano, hails from Ecuador and recently proposed a feature on music from his homeland via a series of individual track reviews. Here is the first featured song. Track 1: El poder #1 (me quitas todo) by Letelefono (2025) Letelefono is the musical project of the Ecuadorian artist Leo Espinoza. […]
“I had to grow my own garden”. The Spring season is in full swing; the flowers are blooming, the sun is out and shining, the weather is perhaps ever so slightly too warm for my liking. All of these aspects have returned to our life. But something is missing, something is yet to be added, […]

ALBUM REVIEW – AMINE: 13 MONTHS OF SUNSHINE

ALBUM REVIEW – LAVINIA BLACKWALL: THE MAKING

Anyone listening to Trembling Bells for the first time would have been struck by Lavinia Blackwall’s vocals. A classically trained soprano, she brought a purity of voice to their freak folk music, soaring with grace yet also having a lived-in edge. It would not be hyperbole to draws comparisons with Sandy Denny. Unsurprisingly, her second […]
Rivers of Nihil are a band that has never been scared to experiment between different metal subgenres. Even though they are considered a progressive death metal band, they often blur the lines between progressive metal, death metal, and on their self-titled album, jazz and blues as well. This combination of different music genres creates a […]

ALBUM REVIEW – RIVERS OF NIHIL: RIVERS OF NIHIL