INTERVIEW: PEA SEA – NEW ALBUM ‘A PYKE OF PATINA SLATE’ FEATURES COLLABORATIONS WITH PETER BREWIS (FIELD MUSIC) AND TOM ENGLISH (MAXIMO PARK)

A musician who celebrates the natural world, alongside tales of lovelorn characters and the downtrodden, all wrapped up in a fuzzy melodic coating or a delicately beautiful acoustic guitar sheen, Pea Sea is back! The new album ‘A Pyke Of Patina Slate’ features collaborations with Peter Brewis from Field Music and Tom English from Maximo […]
OSEES                Abomination Revealed At Last             The 12 tracks on ABOMINATION… are a hypnotic, maniacal, and propulsive attack on the senses–a fitting reaction to a world suffering from genocide, environmental collapse, state sanctioned violence, progressing technocracy, and more. Teethe                 Magic of the Sale          Texan slowcore band unveil their sad and beautiful world. Dropout Kings […]

ALBUM ROUNDUP WEEK ENDING 8 AUGUST 2025

FEATURE – ECUADORIAN MUSIC: PART TWO

Here is the second song from Alejandro Burbano’s feature on new Ecuadorian music. Track review, árbol */|/*, by Latorre (2025) árbol */|/* (tree */|/*) is the last single from Renata Nieto under the monicker of LaTorre. In árbol */|/*, the singing voice lifts to mate with all the elements it encounters: sun, water, flowers and […]
Reneé Rapp is a force to be reckoned with. At just twenty-five, she has played as Regina George in the Broadway adaptation of Mean Girls, reprising that same role in the 2024 adaptation of the film and achieved similar success with her music career by receiving a GLAAD Media Award and a Kids’ Choice Award […]

ALBUM REVIEW – RENEE RAPP: BITE ME

ALBUM REVIEW – YOSHIKA COLWELL: ON THE WING

“I know it’ll all be over soon”. Life, as it were and continues to be, is a never-ending path of simultaneous discovery and recovery. It’s a passage through our desire as humans to ask the inescapable question of; why? Not just to ourselves but to the world around us. A constant urge to find answers […]
Debby Friday   The Starrr of the Queen of Life              Dance music brimming with coded, if-you-know-you-know references—weaving love letters and innuendos from the names of it-girl perfumes, French cognac, and Hellenistic prophetesses who speak in tongues. The New Eves                 The New Eves Is Rising              An instinctive, incendiary mix of Patti Smith radical poetry, rock’n’roll recklessness, […]

ALBUM ROUNDUP WEEK ENDING 1 AUGUST 2025

ALBUM REVIEW – THE NEW EVES: THE NEW EVE IS RISING

Eve ate from the forbidden fruit, the Book of Genesis tells us, and God punished her by making her “pains in childbearing very severe”. Would you say the punishment fit the crime? Was it a crime to disobey God’s orders in the first place? Ask Brighton-based quartet The New Eves and you’ll get the same […]
  While Silent Radio is a predominantly Manchester-based website, we are always delighted to champion events happening in the wider north-west of England. The weekend of 8-10 August sees the focus shifting to central and north Lancashire with two contrasting festivals taking place: one newish, one long established. The new contender is Preston Pop Fest […]

NEWS – TWO NORTH-WEST FESTIVALS : PRESTON POP FEST & REBELLION

ALBUM ROUNDUP WEEK ENDING 25 JULY 2025

Rebecca Schiffman                Before the Future      The album is a collage of varying shades and shapes, with the weight of time at its core. The sonic palette often belies its heavy subject matter. It features contributions from contributions from Sasami plus members of Deerhoof, Woods and Perfume Genius. Cory Hanson                I Love People Written […]
McKinley Dixon is one of the few rappers who can drop a bar like “my target audience is everyone with heart,” and have it feel honest, earned, and true. The music is just that spirited and joyous it would genuinely take someone heartless to find fault, and the slinky flows, compelling thematic depth and luscious […]

ALBUM REVIEW – MCKINLEY DIXON: MAGIC, ALIVE!