ALBUM ROUNDUP WEEK ENDING 8 SEPTEMBER 2023

Lots of lovely releases clamouring for our attention this week. Allow Silent Radio to present our weekly guide. Jonathan Wilson              Eat the Worm    In addition to guitar and vocal performing with Roger Waters’ live band, Wilson has worked as a producer with the likes of Father John Misty and Angel Olsen. ‘Eat the Worm’ offers […]
From watching them in muddy festival fields in 90s, seeing them across the UK with a network of like minded zine writers and fans on the Dirty tour in 92, to seeing their last UK tour in 2010, it’s fair to say that Sonic Youth have been the musical accompaniment for a vast part of […]

ALBUM REVIEW: SONIC YOUTH – LIVE IN BROOKLYN

ALBUM REVIEW – YUSSEF DAYES: BLACK CLASSICAL MUSIC

An anonymous source told this reporter, of Yussef Dayes: “He’s heavy on grooves. I first heard him with United Vibrations. After that, he played with Kamaal Williams in the project Yussef Kamaal, which got a lot of recognition by the likes of Giles Peterson. I saw him play a solo tour after that and he’s […]
The debut album from Canadian art-rap collective, Super Duty Tough Work, sets out to celebrate resistance-based debauchery and internationalism, stating its aim of opposing the homicidal ruling class the planet is forced to endure while not forgetting to have fun. Yes, ‘Paradigm Shift’ is an ambitious record. The content has moments that are as revolutionary […]

ALBUM REVIEW: SUPER DUTY TOUGH WORK: PARADIGM SHIFT

ALBUM REVIEW: PUBLIC SERVICE BROADCASTING / BBC SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA / JULES BUCKLEY – THIS NEW NOISE

No band could have been more suited to performing at a Proms celebrating the centenary of the BBC than Public Service Broadcasting. Their name alone, let alone that their 2013 debut album was titled ‘Inform – Educate – Entertain’, the mantra of original BBC Director General, John Reith, as to the Corporation’s role, make them […]
Holy Waters is the second album from London singer-songwriter and producer, Puma Blue. In a few words it’s a sombre and melancholic reflection on life and death, yet it’s less morbid than it may at first appear. Describing the album as a “chronicle of the graciousness within each repeated cycle of life, death and rebirth,” […]

ALBUM REVIEW – PUMA BLUE: HOLY WATERS

LIVE REVIEW: BE YOUR OWN PET – DEAF INSTITUTE 31/08/2023

Attitude, energy and a lack of pants is what Nashville punk band Be Your Own Pet are serving up. And I’ll absolutely be ordering more. Feeling as if I’m in a foreign land outside Deaf Institute in Manchester, I do what anyone would do and take a quick look around. Seems as if I’m in […]
The Autumn release schedule limbering up nicely with this week’s selection summarised here. Lathe of Heaven               Bound by Naked Skies American band taking their name from an Ursula Le Guin novel and their literary influences are balanced with their debt to new wave and post-punk. Puma Blue          Holy Waters A chronicle of the graciousness […]

ALBUM ROUNDUP WEEK ENDING 1 SEPTEMBER 2023

ALBUM REVIEW – P.G. SIX: MURMURS AND WHISPERS

The latest release from P.G. Six, a multi-instrumentalist attached to iconic indie label Drag City, breaks what has been his 12-year hiatus from making music. ‘Murmurs and Whispers,’ comprised of 9 songs, is an album of great sparsity – perhaps contradictory to expectation, the artist ending his silence with a selection of subtle arrangements. However, […]
On Thursday night the legendary John Cale, perhaps mostly known for his role in one of the most iconic and influential acts of the 60s/70s – The Velvet Underground – played an eclectic set of classics and new jams to an intimate and lucky Albert Hall crowd. This famous Manchester venue over the years has […]

LIVE REVIEW: JOHN CALE – ALBERT HALL: 24/08/2023