ALBUM REVIEW – PAN AMERICAN & KRAMER: REVERBERATIONS OF NON-STOP TRAFFIC ON REDDING ROAD

Pan American is a moniker of post-rock musician Mark Nelson (Labradford). Kramer is a New York music man, mainly producer, who I had the pleasure of reviewing and interviewing not that long ago. Mr Nelson and Mr Kramer, team up here to create a 12 track malaise into dense space fog. Detached from the ship, […]
Probably the busiest week of 2024 so far. Without further ado, here is Silent Radio’s roundup of the week’s new releases. Julia Holter         Something in the Room She Moves         Singer-songwriter/composer whose production choices and arrangements form a continuum of fretless electric bass pitches in counterpoint with gliding vocal melodies, while Yamaha CS-60 lines entwine warm […]

ALBUM ROUNDUP WEEK ENDING 22 MARCH 2024

LIVE REVIEW: BILL RYDER-JONES – NEW CENTURY HALL 16/03/24

On a night when there’s so much going on in our city with numerous well known indie, rock and pop bands playing across town, it’s heartening to find a sold out crowd at New Century Hall to witness one of the UK’s finest songwriters perform his biggest gig to date. After listening to Bill Ryder […]
In the United Kingdom, women couldn’t open a bank account until 1975 (the same year they invented the digital camera, for context). Taking it back a few decades earlier for those of us that are ill informed, The Suffragettes were a group of women that tirelessly campaigned for the right to vote and for general […]

ALBUM REVIEW – AOIFE O’DONOVAN: ALL MY FRIENDS

ALBUM ROUNDUP WEEK ENDING 15 MARCH 2024

To celebrate World Sleep Day, here are a selection of releases to fulfil your wildest dreams. Pete Astor           Tall Stories & New Religions       Recasting some of the less expected songs from his forty-year career, both with The Loft and Weather Prophets as well as solo songs. Sam Lee               Songdreaming  Folk musician produced by Bernard Butler […]
“People have been waiting for it for so long… it’s hopefully gonna explode.” There’s an animated anticipation to Ryan Breslin, lead guitarist and founding member of The K’s, as he sketches his hopes for the band’s upcoming debut album and accompanying UK tour. Frenzied fans, frenetic festival sets and a fateful night out – Breslin […]

INTERVIEW – THE K’S

ALBUM REVIEW – BEANS: BOOTS N CATS

Beans are a Melbourne-based garage band that for the past week has truly blown me away with their amazing, unique sound of psychedelia mixed with funk and a dash of Australian garage-rock with their brand-new LP ‘Boots n Cats’. The album is so vivid with its layers of prominent and fantastic drum work, distorted and […]
Sweetly scathing and swift with a verse, Caity Baser epitomises the new age of whistle-stop pop. Her ‘Still Learning’ mixtape plays out every almost romance, delicate decision and reinvention of spirit with witty abandon; entire expanses of thought all in under three minutes a piece. Angelic vocals turn into acidic rap on a dime – […]

ALBUM REVIEW – CAITY BASER: STILL LEARNING

ALBUM REVIEW – SAM LEE: SONGDREAMING

Have you ever felt like disappearing from society? Or had that exigent urge to run away from the noise of city life? Maybe you’d like to trade the feeling of disappointment associated with the current political climate for a feeling of exhilaration by joining a commune somewhere in the woods and living out your days […]
Jarring synths, war march drums and German vocals about god knows what, it’s not hard to see why I like this release. Of course, different from a studio album in nature, there’s no overriding theme or story here. It’s just a collection of early singles which, to be fair, sound like they belong together. That’s […]

ALBUM REVIEW – XMAL DEUTSCHLAND: EARLY SINGLES (1981-1982_