ALBUM REVIEW – CAR SEAT HEADREST: THE SCHOLARS

“You can love again, if you try again.” [Enter Stage] Everyone’s favourite internet obsessed band is back! …Well one of my favourites. The lovechild of Virginia-born Will Toledo, what once started out as a simple solo project, coalescing into a full band project, returns after 5 years with “The Scholars”, an album that, at its […]
Join Silent Radio as we guide you through another hectic week of new releases. John McKay   Sixes and Sevens      Original guitarist with Siouxsie & the Banshees who is still credited as a major influence by Geordie from Killing Joke, Jim Reid of The Jesus And Mary Chain, U2’s The Edge, Thurston Moore, Johnny Marr and […]

ALBUM ROUNDUP WEEK ENDING 9 MAY 2025

LIVE REVIEW – HAMLET HAIL TO THE THIEF: AVIVA STUDIOS – 07/05/2025

  A dozen jackets hang suspended on a stage shrouded in dry ice while eerie music drones. It could be a modern gallery’s art exhibition. If anyone entering Aviva Studios prior to curtain call did not realise in advance, ‘Hamlet Hail to the Thief’ is by no means a standard Shakespearean production. Instead, it is […]
Often, I use the word ‘meandering’ as an insult when describing music or any other art form. However, ‘Synchronous Orbit’, the new album from Jeffrey Alexander + The Heavy Lidders warrants that description but in the best possible connotations of the word. It is unhurried like a walk of exploration with no map and predefined […]

ALBUM REVIEW – JEFFREY ALEXANDER + THE HEAVY LIDDERS: SYNCHRONOUS ORBIT

ALBUM REVIEW – THE KOOKS: NEVER/KNOW

The Kooks tap into that sixties countercultural influenced sound at the start of the opening title track with Jonathan Harvey playing a groovy bassline and Alexis Nunez keeping a steady beat. Luke Pritchard’s relaxed vocal joins the mix along with Hugh Harris on organ. The perfect summer sound. The repeated harmonies of “Never know when […]
The first track took me straight back to my year 7 drama class, where we were all trying to look cool while doing freeze frames and delivering our intense spoken word pieces on why drugs are bad. It feels very unorganised and quickly put together. Saying this, though, it’s not an unenjoyable track. The bond […]

ALBUM REVIEW – VARIOUS ARTISTS: TRUE NAMES

ALBUM REVIEW – TIDE LINES: GLASGOW LOVE STORY

Rock influences ripple throughout the album by Scottish band Tide Lines, and the band write songs which resonate on such a high level, tracks that are memorable and evocative. From the start to the conclusion of their record Glasgow Love Story, the act generates an emotional twist, evolving with every earnest touch, and every beating […]
Lots to enjoy from this week’s roundup of new releases. Lael Neale      Altogether Stranger Clocking in at just 32 minutes, the 9-song LP covers an unexpected breadth of musical and lyrical terrain – from garage rock nursery rhymes and creation myths to Motorik dance dirges and solitary Omnichord meditations. Sally Potter    Anatomy          Filmmaker whose album […]

ALBUM ROUNDUP WEEK ENDING 2 MAY 2025

ALBUM REVIEW – BLONDSHELL: IF YOU ASKED FOR A PICTURE

Stunning finger picking guitar blesses your ears as you are introduced to If You Asked For A Picture by Blondshell. ‘Thumbtack’ explores the theme of letting someone treat you horribly because at least they will treat you at all, to reference Phoebe Bridgers. This song is so easy to listen to as the melodies and […]
Seattle powerviolence band Iron Lung pretty instantly became part of the canon of the hyper-fast, hyper-aggressive genre. Albums like Life. Iron Lung. Death, Cold Storage 1 & 2 and White Glove Test are now listed among genre classics over a decade their senior when recommending starting material to the uninitiated. That’s not even to mention […]

ALBUM REVIEW – IRON LUNG: ADAPTING // CRAWLING