ALBUM REVIEW: JOHNNY MARR – SPIRIT POWER, THE BEST OF

It’s incredible to think that Johnny Marr only released his first solo album ten years ago, after being a musician for over forty years. Having added his gloriously distinctive guitar riffs to so many bands over the years, (enough to fill another compilation album), this double album pulls together a collection of his finest solo […]
As we approach the last few months of 2023, some of us I’m sure can’t possibly imagine being served with anymore content to digest, after all we’ve been fed over the last year. Well, I’m here to say you should probably save some room in your life for the most beautiful new album from Boston […]

ALBUM REVIEW – ROSIE DARLING: LANTERNS

ALBUM REVIEW – BABY QUEEN: QUARTER LIFE CRISIS

An artist as unique as Baby Queen is incredibly hard to find. From her lyrics, to her music videos, to even her stage name, it’s all a bit out of the ordinary. However, there’s no doubt she pulls it off, and I’d bet her nearly one million monthly listeners on Spotify would agree. Baby Queen, […]
For a band to release a compilation of B-sides and it be considered one of the best albums of the 90’s, it stands testament to show how Oasis are one of the United Kingdom’s greatest musical achievements. 25 years on, it is still hard to believe that the songs featured weren’t deemed good enough to […]

ALBUM REVIEW – OASIS: THE MASTERPLAN

LIVE REVIEW: MODEL/ACTRIZ – YES 4/11/23

It’s early November and Model/Actriz have just clattered into Yes and made a very compelling claim to the ‘best gig of the year’ crown. This is an electric, thrilling, chaotic, wonderfully life affirming show, from a New York band of industrial/noise/dance/rockers who smash all conventions of that description in a giddy, queer, raw, burningly physical, […]
Art Feynman is the recording alias of conceptual artist and producer, Luke Temple. In his latest album, ‘Be Good The Crazy Boys’, both skillsets are utilised. The theoretical underpinning of art is apparent in narratives about fearing the end of the world, albeit through the guise of an unhinged narrator, while the production inspiration comes […]

ALBUM REVIEW – ART FEYNMAN: BE GOOD THE CRAZY BOYS

ALBUM ROUNDUP WEEK ENDING 3 NOVEMBER 2023

For those who think that ‘War and Peace’ is an annoyingly slim novella, we offer Silent Radio’s latest roundup of new releases. It is chaos out there. Moses Yoofee Trio           Ocean   Very pleasing album from a trio consisting of pianist/keyboardist/producer Moses Yoofee, bassist Roman Klobe-Barangă and drummer Noah Fürbringer, fusing jazz, hip hop, RnB, and […]
It’s Halloween night, but there are no spooky shenanigans at Yes this evening. The most interesting guitar band to emerge in a good few years are here to do their post-punk/goth/shoegaze/britpop/grunge thing and there’s no time for messing about. Despite being around for around 4 years now, there’s still an element of the unknown to […]

LIVE REVIEW: BAR ITALIA – YES 31/10/2023

ALBUM REVIEW – SMOKE FAIRIES: CARRIED IN SOUND

‘Carried In Sound’, the sixth album by Smoke Fairies, was recorded at home in a terraced house with the volume turned down to protect the neighbours. Recorded at the dining room table using a SM38 microphone and an old laptop, it incorporates whatever instruments were available, including a broken snare-drum borrowed from a nine-year-old neighbour, […]
For my first visit to The White Hotel in Salford, it is fitting that both acts I witnessed are themselves Manchester bands – though not at all in the Madchester sense of the phrase. Not that there’s anything wrong with a bit of 90s nostalgia, mind you, but the descriptor comes nowhere close to encapsulating […]

LIVE REVIEW – MANDY, INDIANA & SLAP RASH – THE WHITE HOTEL SALFORD 27/10/23