ALBUM REVIEW – PULP: MORE

      PULP – Let’s all meet up in the year 2000 … and 25 Before we start, let me take you back to January 2001, when Pulp released their last studio album, We Love Life. The phenomenal cultural movement of the ‘90s had come and gone, Tony Blair was in his fourth year […]
Hayden Pedigo            I’ll Be Waving As You Drive Away   Pedigo has crafted an intentionally maximalist, genre-resistant work of warped instrumental Americana on this release, which he calls “a micro-dose psychedelic album…as if somebody had cut up a tab of LSD and put on a Fahey record.” Mark Molnar                  EXO      An adventurous, affecting & hermetic […]

ALBUM ROUNDUP WEEK ENDING 6 JUNE 2025

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