ALBUM REVIEW – WATER FROM YOUR EYES: EVERYONE’S CRUSHED

After listening to music for decades, every possible combination of notes and sounds ought to have been exhausted. It is increasingly difficult to hear anything that sounds ear-grabbingly fresh and distinctive but ‘Barley’, the single that heralded the release of ‘Everyone’s Crushed’ by Water From Your Eyes, achieves that feat. Its rhythmic sound collage using […]
As ever, there are plenty of tempting albums to dig your teeth into this week. With fewer big-name releases, it could be a good week for discovering a new favourite. Delivery – Forever Giving Handshakes Nifty debut collection of snappy tunes from energetic garage rock, post-punk Australian group. Bar Italia – Tracey Denim London post-punk […]

ALBUM RELEASES ROUNDUP WEEK ENDING 19 MAY 2023

ALBUM REVIEW: JONAS BROTHERS – THE ALBUM

We’ve all seen Camp Rock, right? Even if not, you must know who the Jonas Brothers are. As creators of the 2007 single ‘S.O.S’ and stars of the Disney Channel series Jonas, the group of three have definitely left an imprint on those who grew up in the early 2000s, and with their new record, […]
There is a contrariness to Bar Italia. Choosing a name that is difficult to google, more likely to lead to mid-price high street eateries than music, has a wilfulness to it. Calling their debut album ‘Tracey Denim’ shows a similar awkward streak in selecting a common name (unfairly synonymous with being naff) and denim, one […]

ALBUM REVIEW – BAR ITALIA: TRACEY DENIM

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’