ALBUM REVIEW – ANGELICA ROCKNE: THE ROSE SOCIETY

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 […]
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 […]

ALBUM REVIEW – BC CAMPLIGHT: THE LAST ROTATION OF EARTH

ALBUM RELEASES ROUNDUP WEEK ENDING 28 APRIL 2023

Showing no signs of winding-down after Record Store Day, April ends with more releases than you could shake a highly adhesive stick at. There is plenty to dip into in our weekly roundup which contains a huge variety, from conventional song structures to the weird and wonderful, from established names to less celebrated artists. Braids […]
Tiny Ruins’ latest album, ‘Ceremony’, consists of songs that act as chapters of a saga set on Tāmaki Makaurau’s (aka Auckland’s) Manukau Harbour, known to locals as “Old Murky,” its western fringe of the Waitākere Ranges. The harbour is dirty, neglected and polluted but the peaceful inlets are all tidal flats, shellfish and birdlife. The […]

ALBUM REVIEW – TINY RUINS: CEREMONY

ALBUM REVIEW – JFDR: MUSEUM

‘Museum’ is an album that inspires references to lightness, delicacy, cleansing, flowers, breezes and clouds. However, as the average cumulous cloud weighs 500,000 kg, the equivalent of 100 elephants, it is unwise to trust music journalists’ adjectives and metaphors or use them as a guide to life. JFDR is the project of Icelandic experimental singer, […]
Having released their first album, ‘Take to the Skies’, back in 2007, it’s fair to say that Enter Shikari have had their fair share of experience in the realm of music that is the rock genre. Putting their own electronic spin on heavier music, the band have built a huge amount of support, with over […]

ALBUM REVIEW: ENTER SHIKARI – A KISS FOR THE WHOLE WORLD

ALBUM REVIEW: SILVER MOTH – BLACK BAY

Let’s face it, for all the good social media can do, it can also be an absolute cesspit of garbage, but thankfully in the case of Silver Moth the power of twitter was actually put to good use as these songs developed following twitter exchanges between multi-instrumentalist Elisabeth Elektra and Abrasive Trees songwriter/guitarist Matthew Rochford […]
Such is the rich array of album releases each week that it is impossible for the industrious busy bees at Silent Radio to cover them all in our preferred in-depth review style. However, we will now be providing an additional roundup of releases that have caught our eyes, beginning with this selection set for release […]

RECOMMENDED ALBUM RELEASES ROUNDUP WEEK ENDING 21 APRIL 2023

ALBUM REVIEW – EVERYTHING BUT THE GIRL: FUSE

When Everything But The Girl released their last album, ‘Temperamental’, 24 years ago, the idea that I would eagerly anticipate a new record by them would have been inconceivable. Even though they are only a few years older than me, I dismissed them as ‘old people’s music’ as the sounds I enjoyed thrived on dissonance […]
I started my musical journey I want to say eight years ago with listening to psych music from the absolute rock gods Smashing Pumpkins. I argue I haven’t dropped the sound or wave, if you will, that entices you into a journey of experiencing music. A kind that widens the horizon of peculiar music genres. […]

ALBUM REVIEW: THE SHITS – YOU’RE A MESS