Adrian
@acloudtotheback.bsky.social
Sonic hunter gatherer. Past/present scribe for Under The Surface, Comes With A Smile, Delusions of Adequacy, Pennyblack Music, Concrete Islands and Freq.
Freq: https://freq.org.uk/tag/adrian
All views my own.
Freq: https://freq.org.uk/tag/adrian
All views my own.
My freshest review for @freqzine.bsky.social...
@acloudtotheback.bsky.social writes: "Clocking in at mere thirty-six minutes, Love Chant certainly doesn’t overstay its welcome, which means inviting it back for repeat airings is not hard to do. .. a commendable regeneration for The #Lemonheads." #musicreview #altrock freq.org.uk/reviews/the-...
November 2, 2025 at 6:50 PM
My freshest review for @freqzine.bsky.social...
ICYMI: my take on the still-fresh new Tortoise LP for @freqzine.bsky.social...
@acloudtotheback.bsky.social: Touch is nevertheless a roundly decent latter-day #Tortoise record that reassures us that the internal alchemical artistry .. retains a distinctive potency. @intlanthem.bsky.social @nonesuch.com #postrock #musicreview #albumreview freq.org.uk/reviews/tort...
November 2, 2025 at 1:51 PM
ICYMI: my take on the still-fresh new Tortoise LP for @freqzine.bsky.social...
A packed and sweaty but utterly exhilarating @prolapseband.bsky.social gig in Bristol made for a fine @freqzine.bsky.social family outing last night. Great to also finally make up for missing them at a Leicester gig (with support from the long-lost Novak) in the late-90s.
(@derrymick.bsky.social)
(@derrymick.bsky.social)
November 2, 2025 at 1:46 PM
A packed and sweaty but utterly exhilarating @prolapseband.bsky.social gig in Bristol made for a fine @freqzine.bsky.social family outing last night. Great to also finally make up for missing them at a Leicester gig (with support from the long-lost Novak) in the late-90s.
(@derrymick.bsky.social)
(@derrymick.bsky.social)
My latest @precrecs.bsky.social archival release review for @freqzine.bsky.social...⤵️
@acloudtotheback.bsky.social: After conducting another targeted rummage through the #BBC’s archival strongrooms, @precrecs.bsky.social takes us back through some of the life and times of Glasgow’s The Primevals #musicreview #lpreview #indierock freq.org.uk/reviews/the-...
October 31, 2025 at 4:54 PM
My latest @precrecs.bsky.social archival release review for @freqzine.bsky.social...⤵️
This is a really beatific belated discovery today...➡️ kisses5eva.bandcamp.com/album/kisses
kisses, by kisses
8 track album
kisses5eva.bandcamp.com
October 28, 2025 at 7:46 PM
This is a really beatific belated discovery today...➡️ kisses5eva.bandcamp.com/album/kisses
My thoughts on the new Tortoise LP for @freqzine.bsky.social... ⤵️
@acloudtotheback.bsky.social: Touch is nevertheless a roundly decent latter-day #Tortoise record that reassures us that the internal alchemical artistry .. retains a distinctive potency. @intlanthem.bsky.social @nonesuch.com #postrock #musicreview #albumreview freq.org.uk/reviews/tort...
October 24, 2025 at 4:05 PM
My thoughts on the new Tortoise LP for @freqzine.bsky.social... ⤵️
Agreed...
Not just Tortoise who are back. Very happy to hear the first new Pullman music in basically 25 years... www.youtube.com/watch?v=MsQy...
Pullman - "Weightless"
YouTube video by westernvinyl
www.youtube.com
October 23, 2025 at 7:19 PM
Agreed...
This sounds like a promisingly sublime collaboration...➡️ marylattimoreharpist.bandcamp.com/track/melted...
Melted Moon, by Mary Lattimore & Julianna Barwick
from the album Tragic Magic
marylattimoreharpist.bandcamp.com
October 14, 2025 at 6:18 PM
This sounds like a promisingly sublime collaboration...➡️ marylattimoreharpist.bandcamp.com/track/melted...
Gorgeous chamber-pop from Matt Pond PA's expanded twentieth anniversary reissue of the still-sublime 'Several Arrows Later' LP. mattpondpa.bandcamp.com/track/so-muc...
So Much Trouble (acoustic), by matt pond PA
from the album Several Arrows Later 20th Anniversary Album Preorder
mattpondpa.bandcamp.com
October 5, 2025 at 1:18 PM
Gorgeous chamber-pop from Matt Pond PA's expanded twentieth anniversary reissue of the still-sublime 'Several Arrows Later' LP. mattpondpa.bandcamp.com/track/so-muc...
A really lovely new low-key side-release from @ianbutton.bsky.social's Papernut Cambridge worth checking out...➡️ papernutcambridge.bandcamp.com/album/tape-s...
Tape Session, by Papernut Cambridge
7 track album
papernutcambridge.bandcamp.com
October 5, 2025 at 1:15 PM
A really lovely new low-key side-release from @ianbutton.bsky.social's Papernut Cambridge worth checking out...➡️ papernutcambridge.bandcamp.com/album/tape-s...
ICYMI: my takes on some new and old indie-pop wares. Looking forward to seeing The Cords live this coming week in the UK (with support from the previously reviewed Josie).
@skepwax.bsky.social / @slumberlandrecords.com
@skepwax.bsky.social / @slumberlandrecords.com
September's #indiepop round-up from @acloudtotheback.bsky.social includes LPs from The Cords, The Last Of The Lovely Days and
@thisistheloves.bsky.social @simonloverules.bsky.social
via @precrecs.bsky.social
@skepwax.bsky.social @slumberlandrecords.com
freq.org.uk/reviews/sept...
@thisistheloves.bsky.social @simonloverules.bsky.social
via @precrecs.bsky.social
@skepwax.bsky.social @slumberlandrecords.com
freq.org.uk/reviews/sept...
September 28, 2025 at 10:57 AM
ICYMI: my takes on some new and old indie-pop wares. Looking forward to seeing The Cords live this coming week in the UK (with support from the previously reviewed Josie).
@skepwax.bsky.social / @slumberlandrecords.com
@skepwax.bsky.social / @slumberlandrecords.com
ICYMI: my take on the new Sloan LP, officially released on Friday. ⤵️
@acloudtotheback.bsky.social: At this point ... a new Sloan studio album is not really about reaching out to new audiences. It’s much more about sustaining creative consistency & keeping the Canadian #powerpop institution’s adherents attached. #musicreview LP out via @yeproc.bsky.social t.ly/m1SlT
September 28, 2025 at 10:53 AM
ICYMI: my take on the new Sloan LP, officially released on Friday. ⤵️
My freshest synth-centric review bundle for @freqzine.bsky.social...⤵️
@acloudtotheback.bsky.social: Venturing once more into the overflowing world of wires, elemental sounds and wordlessly channelled conceptualism #musicreview #electronica @thrilljockey.bsky.social
@scholarspeak.bsky.social @woodfordhalse.bsky.social @1sampre.bsky.social
freq.org.uk/reviews/roun...
@scholarspeak.bsky.social @woodfordhalse.bsky.social @1sampre.bsky.social
freq.org.uk/reviews/roun...
September 27, 2025 at 3:14 PM
My freshest synth-centric review bundle for @freqzine.bsky.social...⤵️
Always good to be reminded how elementally soothing this Land Observations album of ten years ago from @muterecords.bsky.social is... landobservations.bandcamp.com/album/roman-...
Roman Roads IV-XI, by LAND OBSERVATIONS
8 track album
landobservations.bandcamp.com
September 23, 2025 at 7:48 PM
Always good to be reminded how elementally soothing this Land Observations album of ten years ago from @muterecords.bsky.social is... landobservations.bandcamp.com/album/roman-...
My thoughts on the new Sloan studio album for @freqzine.bsky.social... ⤵️
@acloudtotheback.bsky.social: At this point ... a new Sloan studio album is not really about reaching out to new audiences. It’s much more about sustaining creative consistency & keeping the Canadian #powerpop institution’s adherents attached. #musicreview LP out via @yeproc.bsky.social t.ly/m1SlT
September 15, 2025 at 10:28 PM
My thoughts on the new Sloan studio album for @freqzine.bsky.social... ⤵️
Another indie-pop centric review bundle from me on @freqzine.bsky.social... ⤵️
September's #indiepop round-up from @acloudtotheback.bsky.social includes LPs from The Cords, The Last Of The Lovely Days and
@thisistheloves.bsky.social @simonloverules.bsky.social
via @precrecs.bsky.social
@skepwax.bsky.social @slumberlandrecords.com
freq.org.uk/reviews/sept...
@thisistheloves.bsky.social @simonloverules.bsky.social
via @precrecs.bsky.social
@skepwax.bsky.social @slumberlandrecords.com
freq.org.uk/reviews/sept...
September 14, 2025 at 2:03 PM
Another indie-pop centric review bundle from me on @freqzine.bsky.social... ⤵️
ICYMI: my recent review of the sublime new @aviengel.bsky.social album.⤵️
@acloudtotheback.bsky.social : @aviengel.bsky.social's Mote
"... casts a spell across any continental boundaries through its stunningly intimate yet deceptively intricate arrangements and desolate but dreamlike atmospherics." Via @woodfordhalse.bsky.social #musicreview #folk #canada t.ly/6TrMf
"... casts a spell across any continental boundaries through its stunningly intimate yet deceptively intricate arrangements and desolate but dreamlike atmospherics." Via @woodfordhalse.bsky.social #musicreview #folk #canada t.ly/6TrMf
September 6, 2025 at 8:17 PM
ICYMI: my recent review of the sublime new @aviengel.bsky.social album.⤵️
My freshest album review for @freqzine.bsky.social...⤵️
@acloudtotheback.bsky.social notes the "deeply omnivorous plundering from whatever sources serve the band’s collectivist broken mirror reflections upon the world" from @prolapseband.bsky.social via @tapeterecords.bsky.social - with @derrymick.bsky.social
freq.org.uk/reviews/prol...
freq.org.uk/reviews/prol...
September 1, 2025 at 6:13 PM
My freshest album review for @freqzine.bsky.social...⤵️
A great @freqzine.bsky.social family outing last night in Bristol.
A truly sublime languid and expansive set from @6organs.bsky.social...
A truly sublime languid and expansive set from @6organs.bsky.social...
August 31, 2025 at 12:05 PM
A great @freqzine.bsky.social family outing last night in Bristol.
A truly sublime languid and expansive set from @6organs.bsky.social...
A truly sublime languid and expansive set from @6organs.bsky.social...
An ear-opening and informative episode of @stuartmaconie.bsky.social's curatorial Freak Zone, really worth catching up with... ➡️ www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
Stuart Maconie's Freak Zone - 20th Century Classical Special - BBC Sounds
Stuart presents a 20th century classical special with special guest Elizabeth Alker.
www.bbc.co.uk
August 25, 2025 at 10:37 AM
An ear-opening and informative episode of @stuartmaconie.bsky.social's curatorial Freak Zone, really worth catching up with... ➡️ www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
This is an interesting new @davidc86.bsky.social podcast interview with @minutebook.bsky.social, on his new book about David Ackles and his own past musical ventures. ➡️ thec86show.podbean.com/e/mark-brend...
Mark Brend - David Ackles | C86 Show - Indie Pop
Mark Brend in conversation with David Eastaugh
http://jawbonepress.com/down-river/
Down River: In Search Of David Ackles is an illuminating study of mythmaking, the popular music industry, and a forgo...
thec86show.podbean.com
August 18, 2025 at 7:02 PM
This is an interesting new @davidc86.bsky.social podcast interview with @minutebook.bsky.social, on his new book about David Ackles and his own past musical ventures. ➡️ thec86show.podbean.com/e/mark-brend...
Another review from me up on @freqzine.bsky.social... ⤵️
@acloudtotheback.bsky.social : @aviengel.bsky.social's Mote
"... casts a spell across any continental boundaries through its stunningly intimate yet deceptively intricate arrangements and desolate but dreamlike atmospherics." Via @woodfordhalse.bsky.social #musicreview #folk #canada t.ly/6TrMf
"... casts a spell across any continental boundaries through its stunningly intimate yet deceptively intricate arrangements and desolate but dreamlike atmospherics." Via @woodfordhalse.bsky.social #musicreview #folk #canada t.ly/6TrMf
August 17, 2025 at 4:48 PM
Another review from me up on @freqzine.bsky.social... ⤵️
Revisiting this wonderful album repeatedly at the moment: angeledavid-guillou.bandcamp.com/album/en-mou...
En Mouvement, by Angèle David-Guillou
9 track album
angeledavid-guillou.bandcamp.com
August 16, 2025 at 10:45 AM
Revisiting this wonderful album repeatedly at the moment: angeledavid-guillou.bandcamp.com/album/en-mou...
My review for @freqzine.bsky.social of the sublime debut Statutes In Fog album on @2ndlanguagemusic.bsky.social ⤵️
Featuring @glenjohnson.bsky.social and @isnajdui.bsky.social, plus members of @thedecliningwinter.bsky.social as well as the @claypipemusic.bsky.social family and more.
Featuring @glenjohnson.bsky.social and @isnajdui.bsky.social, plus members of @thedecliningwinter.bsky.social as well as the @claypipemusic.bsky.social family and more.
@acloudtotheback.bsky.social: Evocative, enigmatic and enthralling throughout [Statues In Fog] is far more than just a digital cupboard clearance exercise, which should certainly be recognised as one of his finest curatorial creations to date. #musicreview #pianomagic t.ly/cd-aK
August 15, 2025 at 5:24 PM
My review for @freqzine.bsky.social of the sublime debut Statutes In Fog album on @2ndlanguagemusic.bsky.social ⤵️
Featuring @glenjohnson.bsky.social and @isnajdui.bsky.social, plus members of @thedecliningwinter.bsky.social as well as the @claypipemusic.bsky.social family and more.
Featuring @glenjohnson.bsky.social and @isnajdui.bsky.social, plus members of @thedecliningwinter.bsky.social as well as the @claypipemusic.bsky.social family and more.
My latest review up on @freqzine.bsky.social ⤵️
@acloudtotheback.bsky.social
: "For all the anarchic trappings that proceed Australia’s profanity-framed #TropicalFStorm, there is clearly a lot more craft and imagination at play ... finding a creative sweet spot, between swampy sleaziness and more imaginative intricacies" #musicreview t.ly/mFOqL
: "For all the anarchic trappings that proceed Australia’s profanity-framed #TropicalFStorm, there is clearly a lot more craft and imagination at play ... finding a creative sweet spot, between swampy sleaziness and more imaginative intricacies" #musicreview t.ly/mFOqL
August 5, 2025 at 7:17 PM
My latest review up on @freqzine.bsky.social ⤵️