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A magazine about music, film and more online since 1998 at https://www.freq.org.uk

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@michaelrodhamheaps.bsky.social Leviathan Whispers freq.org.uk/reviews/tim-... This dark and contemplative work, inspired by the blazing spike of William Blake's Albion, is a haunting torchlit journey into some imagined underworld, #musicreview #sax #drone #psychedelia Out via @btlabel.bsky.social
Tim Hill live 2025 This dark and contemplative work, inspired by the blazing spike of William Blake‘s Albion, is a haunting torchlit journey into some imagined underworld
November 19, 2025 at 9:41 AM
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@stoatie.bsky.social : Songs mutate and evolve, improvised elements sticking and becoming part of the canon. #Swans evolve to such a degree that .. one of their songs is infinitely more likely to develop sentience than any fucking LLM. t.ly/Pr3qt pix: @davepettit.bsky.social
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Swans live November 2025 Jessica Moss live November 2025
November 16, 2025 at 10:47 AM
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@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-...
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. Although it won’t catapult Dando back to crossover celebrity status -- which is arguably a good thing -- Love Chat is a commendable regeneration for The Lemonheads, one that hopefully won’t take quite so long to spawn a sequel.
November 2, 2025 at 3:46 PM
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@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-...
The Primevals – Best Of The BBC Sessions After conducting another targeted rummage through the #BBC’s archival strongrooms, Precious Recordings takes us back through some of the life and times of Glasgow’s The Primevals -- in John Peel, Andy Kershaw and Janice Long-commissioned session configurations. #musicreview #lpreview #indierock https://freq.org.uk/reviews/the-primevals-bbc-sessions/
October 31, 2025 at 12:09 PM
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Allying #hardangerfiddle and jaws harp with the kind of beats found in electro-halling, disco-gangar and springar d'n'b.. familiar dance staples..flex their elegant muscles against instruments that have been around for hundreds of years and the outcome is a real ear -opener. #musicreview t.ly/F_gof
Allying #hardangerfiddle and jaws harp with the kind of beats found in electro-halling, disco-gangar and springar d'n'b is still a novel idea .. familiar dance staples like the Roland TB-303 and TR-909 flex their elegant muscles against instruments that have been around for hundreds of years and the outcome is a real ear -opener. #musicreview
October 30, 2025 at 9:48 PM
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That all-important hypnotic unison that each attentively drives towards until the density manifests, literally just appears and things lock into a gristled repeat full of vaporising trajectories .. where you’re not sure who’s doing what .. #thenecks #livemuisic #musicreview #jazz #improv t.ly/UHLV3
That all-important hypnotic unison that each attentively drives towards until the density manifests, literally just appears and things lock into a gristled repeat full of vaporising trajectories ... A miraged montage, where you’re not sure who’s doing what, all reverberating in delicious tribal splashes. #livemuisic #musicreview #jazz #improv That all-important hypnotic unison that each attentively drives towards until the density manifests, literally just appears and things lock into a gristled repeat full of vaporising trajectories ... A miraged montage, where you’re not sure who’s doing what, all reverberating in delicious tribal splashes. #livemuisic #musicreview #jazz #improv
October 30, 2025 at 9:21 PM
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The two #sabresofparadise albums work well but in different ways, and for any fan of intelligent and leftfield #electronica are are rather essential. They stand up well over thirty years later and @warprecords.bsky.social's re-issues are very welcome.
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The two albums work well but in different ways, and for any fan of intelligent and leftfield electronica are are rather essential. They stand up well over thirty years later and Warp's re-issues are very welcome. The two albums work well but in different ways, and for any fan of intelligent and leftfield electronica are are rather essential. They stand up well over thirty years later and Warp's re-issues are very welcome.
October 25, 2025 at 1:48 PM
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@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...
Whilst arguably having missed a few opportunities, Touch is nevertheless a roundly decent latter-day #Tortoise record that reassures us that the internal alchemical artistry – even if not as effervescent as it once was – retains a distinctive potency. Hopefully, we won’t have to wait for another best part of a decade to find out if there is more left in the shared sonic tank. #postrock #musicreview
October 24, 2025 at 1:42 PM
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The Utopia Strong and Andrew Liles live in #Glastonbury (The King Arthur; @rapideyeelectro.bsky.social ) "between Dionysian and line-dancing." and Bristol (@The Cube; @michaelrodhamheaps.bsky.social ) "shimmering optimism constantly unwrapping fresh perspectives." t.ly/ei2qG t.ly/LWj57 #livemusic
October 15, 2025 at 12:38 PM
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Crime And The City Solution .. stripped down to a three-piece .. clearly enjoy their peripatetic lifestyle... the joy, the intensity, the love for the songs and respect for the audience all added up to an unforgettable evening +Jack King; pix by @michaelrodhamheaps.bsky.social #livemusic t.ly/hyKVL
October 3, 2025 at 9:19 AM
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Spread across 10 tracks, Four Ways To The Sun highlights Georgia's warm, mysterious voice & paints her imagery in a balm of soft focus jazz and folky flecks. It is a dreamy, ethereal sound that opens the album with a voice that has a depth but sounds cool; languid #jazz #rock #musicreview t.ly/nyC4x
Spread across ten tracks, Four Ways To The Sun highlights Georgia's warm, mysterious voice and paints her imagery in a balm of soft focus jazz and folky flecks. It is a dreamy, ethereal sound that opens the album with a voice that has a depth but sounds cool; languid.
September 30, 2025 at 2:58 PM
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It is always a pleasure and a journey of discovery to receive a new #BobbyConn album and even after nearly thirty years of releasing his personal yet immensely memorable missives .. is a real game of two halves and quite the curveball. @tapeterecords.bsky.social #musicreview #glamrock t.ly/6GcNi
It is always a pleasure and a journey of discovery to receive a new Bobby Conn album and even after nearly thirty years of releasing his personal yet immensely memorable missives, this latest, his second for relatively new home Tapete and first since 2020’s Recovery is a real game of two halves and quite the curveball. #musicreview #glamrock
September 29, 2025 at 4:13 PM
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Experimental pianist and composer Johnny Richards is probably best known for his part in Shatner’s Bassoon.. For his latest, he teams up with Bad Plus drummer Dave King and .. they have stitched together a suite of pieces .. an extraordinary array of sounds and textures. #musicreview t.ly/Sdcoh
Experimental pianist and composer Johnny Richards is probably best known for his part in Shatner’s Bassoon.. For his latest, he teams up with Bad Plus drummer Dave King and by a series of transatlantic transactions, they have stitched together a suite of ten personal and complex pieces that required Johnny’s piano to be treated in various ways to provide an extraordinary array of sounds and textures. #musicreview
September 28, 2025 at 2:10 PM
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Another well-chosen but overlooked group reconvening with a release on Computer Students is Knoxville, TN's New Brutalism who, as the name may suggest, purvey a sharp modern high-intensity take on #punkrock that melds a kind of Chicago dynamism with LA ire. #musicreview freq.org.uk/reviews/new-...
Another well-chosen but overlooked group reconvening with a release on Computer Students is Knoxville, Tennessee's New Brutalism who, as the name may suggest, purvey a sharp modern high-intensity take on #punkrock that melds a kind of Chicago dynamism with LA ire. #musicreview https://freq.org.uk/reviews/new-brutalism-requiescat-record/
September 27, 2025 at 8:14 PM
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@acloudtotheback.bsky.social: Venturing once more into the overflowing world of wires, elemental sounds and wordlessly channelled conceptualism #musicreview #electronica @thrilljockey.bsky.social
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September 27, 2025 at 9:44 AM
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@michaelrodhamheaps.bsky.social: Cusping the halo of consciousness, @nadspiro.bsky.social conjures up a sonically charged space full of .. abstracted transits .. murmuring otherness that flutter-flowers your skull in broken orbits and #Coil-like elves. #musicreview #electronica t.ly/_ieZA
September 26, 2025 at 2:54 PM
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#chillout and really feel the music move around you. This collection.. brings together some favourites of those involved & runs the full range from sleepy drift to more funky groove & is a great reminder of what was special about this period. #ambient #electronica #downtempo #musicreview t.ly/SojGr
..chill out and really feel the music move around you. This collection, the first to really embrace the ethos of the nights, brings together some favourites of those involved and runs the full range from sleepy drift to more funky groove and is a great reminder of what was special about this period. #ambient #musicreview https://freq.org.uk/reviews/telepathic
September 19, 2025 at 8:35 AM
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@kaukolampi.bsky.social: "Remember to think horizontally, not just vertically." Instead of a singular piece lasting an LP’s length, we are given the pleasure of listening through four variations of the soma-induced trance brought about by the brave new world of Synestopia freq.org.uk/reviews/kauk...
...continuing to approach the sound horizontally was the breakthrough he needed to bring the album to its inevitably longitudinal conclusion. Instead of a singular piece lasting an LP’s length, we are given the pleasure of listening through four variations of the soma-induced trance brought about by the brave new world of Synestopia
September 18, 2025 at 8:19 AM
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@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
Sloan – Based On The Best Seller At this point in the lifespan of Sloan, a new studio album is not really about reaching out to new audiences. It’s much more about sustaining creative consistency and keeping the Canadian #powerpop institution’s adherents attached. #musicreview https://freq.org.uk/reviews/sloan-based-on-the-best-seller/
September 15, 2025 at 9:47 PM
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Eve Adams "conjures up ten #windswept songs of yearning and love with a voice that is warm and worn but bright like the #desert sun. .. songs echo through the desert canyons, moving languidly, shimmering guitar often sparing through the thin desert air." #musicreview freq.org.uk/reviews/eve-...
...conjures up ten windswept songs of yearning and love with a voice that is warm and worn but bright like the desert sun. Mostly on acoustic guitar or piano with some string embellishments, the songs echo through the desert canyons, moving languidly, shimmering guitar often sparing through the thin desert air.
September 15, 2025 at 3:34 PM
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To celebrate two decades of the Afro Peruvian Sextet, the group has chosen to embrace the spirit of El Muki, a mythological figure... fits well with the sextet’s sound; a melding of NY street jazz and Latin American rhythmic sensation. #musicreview #afrojazz #jazz #peru freq.org.uk/reviews/gabr...
September 13, 2025 at 5:49 PM
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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
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September 13, 2025 at 2:37 PM
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"Now I’m not suggesting that you nip down to the barber’s and ask for the full tonsure but, to quote the inspirational opening of the album, “You’re a Monk, I’m a Monk, we’re all #Monks”. Get this one on the turntable and crank it all the way up. It’s #MonkTime " #musicreview #garagerock t.ly/EAoRz
Now I’m not suggesting that you nip down to the barber’s and ask for the full tonsure but, to quote the inspirational opening of the album, “You’re a Monk, I’m a Monk, we’re all #Monks”. Get this one on the turntable and crank it all the way up. It’s #MonkTime. #musicreview #garagerock
September 6, 2025 at 11:49 AM
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Alone on #piano, #synth, #harmonium, #autoharp and #drummachine, the album veers between three different recording sessions and switches from pensive echo-laden #minimalism to deliberately mis-stepped but more elaborate pieces that show a unique approach to keyed instruments. #musicreview t.ly/yDJVR
Alone on #piano, #synth, #harmonium, #autoharp and #drummachine, the album veers between three different recording sessions and switches from pensive, echo laden minimalism to deliberately mis-stepped but more elaborate pieces that show a unique approach to keyed instruments.#musicreview
September 6, 2025 at 10:56 AM
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@michaelrodhamheaps.bsky.social : "The eerie pull of  Sky's otherworldly atmosphere was ignited by Eric Wetherell's #soundtrack that for its time felt futuristic.. verged towards the experimental" Out on 10" LP revived by @btlabel.bsky.social freq.org.uk/reviews/eric... #musicreview #ost #tv
September 5, 2025 at 9:29 AM