Freq
@freqzine.bsky.social
A magazine about music, film and more online since 1998 at https://www.freq.org.uk
Where once there was music, now let there be noise.
Also at https://mastodon.social/@Freq
Where once there was music, now let there be noise.
Also at https://mastodon.social/@Freq
Joel Danell has been trading under the name of Sven Wunder since 2019's Doğu Çiçekler (Eastern Flowers) and each release seems to refine his romantic take on widescreen instrumental music, touching as it does on #soul, #jazz, #yachtrock and #soundtrack #musicreview
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November 28, 2025 at 3:19 PM
Joel Danell has been trading under the name of Sven Wunder since 2019's Doğu Çiçekler (Eastern Flowers) and each release seems to refine his romantic take on widescreen instrumental music, touching as it does on #soul, #jazz, #yachtrock and #soundtrack #musicreview
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Isambard Khroustaliov and Ben Carey – Field Recordings From Other Constellations https://freq.org.uk/reviews/khroustaliov-carey/ An immediate ignition; a series of fluttering electronic sound signals arrival. The where is hard to spot as the constant chirrup […]
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November 28, 2025 at 2:55 PM
Isambard Khroustaliov and Ben Carey – Field Recordings From Other Constellations https://freq.org.uk/reviews/khroustaliov-carey/ An immediate ignition; a series of fluttering electronic sound signals arrival. The where is hard to spot as the constant chirrup […]
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[Original post on mastodon.social]
"With the cassette format, Not Applicable has done a glorious job on its packaging... if anything is the perfect encapsulation of what the label stands for. This is absolutely essential."
freq.org.uk/reviews/will... #postapocalyptic #jazz #musicreview
freq.org.uk/reviews/will... #postapocalyptic #jazz #musicreview
November 28, 2025 at 2:35 PM
"With the cassette format, Not Applicable has done a glorious job on its packaging... if anything is the perfect encapsulation of what the label stands for. This is absolutely essential."
freq.org.uk/reviews/will... #postapocalyptic #jazz #musicreview
freq.org.uk/reviews/will... #postapocalyptic #jazz #musicreview
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A fine account (with awesome pictures to boot) by @freqzine.bsky.social's @michaelrodhamheaps.bsky.social of a transcendental Tortoise stage outing in Bristol.
@intlanthem.bsky.social
@intlanthem.bsky.social
Tortoise / Jeremiah Chiu and Marta Sofia Honer (live at The Prospect Building) https://freq.org.uk/reviews/tortoise-live-2025/ ...those open-ended adventurers flew fiery from the start. Nevada(ry) soft focus they descend -- all desert twilights and snaky […]
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November 27, 2025 at 11:19 PM
A fine account (with awesome pictures to boot) by @freqzine.bsky.social's @michaelrodhamheaps.bsky.social of a transcendental Tortoise stage outing in Bristol.
@intlanthem.bsky.social
@intlanthem.bsky.social
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Tortoise / Jeremiah Chiu and Marta Sofia Honer (live at The Prospect Building) https://freq.org.uk/reviews/tortoise-live-2025/ ...those open-ended adventurers flew fiery from the start. Nevada(ry) soft focus they descend -- all desert twilights and snaky […]
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[Original post on mastodon.social]
November 27, 2025 at 10:35 PM
Tortoise / Jeremiah Chiu and Marta Sofia Honer (live at The Prospect Building) https://freq.org.uk/reviews/tortoise-live-2025/ ...those open-ended adventurers flew fiery from the start. Nevada(ry) soft focus they descend -- all desert twilights and snaky […]
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The Sabres Of Paradise / Alex Knight (live at Strange Brew) https://freq.org.uk/reviews/sabres-of-paradise-live-2025/ With four red lights and plenty of dry ice, the group in their sharp suits and nonchalant swagger looked like a dissolute Rat Pack, each […]
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November 27, 2025 at 9:42 PM
The Sabres Of Paradise / Alex Knight (live at Strange Brew) https://freq.org.uk/reviews/sabres-of-paradise-live-2025/ With four red lights and plenty of dry ice, the group in their sharp suits and nonchalant swagger looked like a dissolute Rat Pack, each […]
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Frankenstein https://freq.org.uk/reviews/frankenstein-2025/ Rather than shocking new life into a familiar legend, respectable horror nerd Guillermo del Toro pores over Mary Shelley’s seminal science fiction masterpiece with the studious attention of a […]
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November 27, 2025 at 10:28 AM
Frankenstein https://freq.org.uk/reviews/frankenstein-2025/ Rather than shocking new life into a familiar legend, respectable horror nerd Guillermo del Toro pores over Mary Shelley’s seminal science fiction masterpiece with the studious attention of a […]
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And there's a review here by @acloudtotheback.bsky.social at @freqzine.bsky.social here: freq.org.uk/reviews/nove... - "Hungry Vortex blows things up and out into four epically time- and mind-expanding cuts."
Lorelle Meets The Obsolete - Corporal / Sister Ray Davies - Holy Island / Perrache - Letter To Jane EP / Loula Yorke - Hydrology / Polypores - Hungry Vortex
There is undoubtedly no productivity crisis in the broad spheres of nouveau shoegaze and DIY electronica, with complementary manoeuvres and convergence playing out between them to boot. This is certai...
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November 26, 2025 at 7:13 AM
And there's a review here by @acloudtotheback.bsky.social at @freqzine.bsky.social here: freq.org.uk/reviews/nove... - "Hungry Vortex blows things up and out into four epically time- and mind-expanding cuts."
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Another review in for 'Hydrology' (DiN94), the new album from @loulayorke.bsky.social over @freqzine.bsky.social.
freq.org.uk/reviews/nove...
"Across its recordings, osmotically expanded over 42 minutes, the DiN-dispensed Hydrology could be her finest and most approachable outing to date".
freq.org.uk/reviews/nove...
"Across its recordings, osmotically expanded over 42 minutes, the DiN-dispensed Hydrology could be her finest and most approachable outing to date".
Lorelle Meets The Obsolete - Corporal / Sister Ray Davies - Holy Island / Perrache - Letter To Jane EP / Loula Yorke - Hydrology / Polypores - Hungry Vortex
There is undoubtedly no productivity crisis in the broad spheres of nouveau shoegaze and DIY electronica, with complementary manoeuvres and convergence playing out between them to boot. This is certai...
freq.org.uk
November 26, 2025 at 9:08 AM
Another review in for 'Hydrology' (DiN94), the new album from @loulayorke.bsky.social over @freqzine.bsky.social.
freq.org.uk/reviews/nove...
"Across its recordings, osmotically expanded over 42 minutes, the DiN-dispensed Hydrology could be her finest and most approachable outing to date".
freq.org.uk/reviews/nove...
"Across its recordings, osmotically expanded over 42 minutes, the DiN-dispensed Hydrology could be her finest and most approachable outing to date".
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"Hydrology commandingly recalls and fuses together filaments of vintage kosmische, New Age ambience, Brian Eno, Sam Prekop’s latter-day solo works, whilst adding Yorke’s own distinct and enthralling imprint on top of it all"
tysm @freqzine.bsky.social + @acloudtotheback.bsky.social 😌
tysm @freqzine.bsky.social + @acloudtotheback.bsky.social 😌
Hydrology (DiN94), by Loula Yorke
6 track album
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November 26, 2025 at 4:18 PM
"Hydrology commandingly recalls and fuses together filaments of vintage kosmische, New Age ambience, Brian Eno, Sam Prekop’s latter-day solo works, whilst adding Yorke’s own distinct and enthralling imprint on top of it all"
tysm @freqzine.bsky.social + @acloudtotheback.bsky.social 😌
tysm @freqzine.bsky.social + @acloudtotheback.bsky.social 😌
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My latest review bundle for @freqzine.bsky.social at: freq.org.uk/reviews/nove...
November 25, 2025 at 10:55 PM
My latest review bundle for @freqzine.bsky.social at: freq.org.uk/reviews/nove...
November's #shoegaze & #electronica #musicreview roundup from @acloudtotheback.bsky.social with:
@soniccathedral.bsky.social
@perrache.bsky.social
@superpolar.bsky.social
@loulayorke.bsky.social
@ianboddy.bsky.social / DiN
@polypores.bsky.social
@dommartin1967.bsky.social / Feral Child
& more
@soniccathedral.bsky.social
@perrache.bsky.social
@superpolar.bsky.social
@loulayorke.bsky.social
@ianboddy.bsky.social / DiN
@polypores.bsky.social
@dommartin1967.bsky.social / Feral Child
& more
Lorelle Meets The Obsolete – Corporal / Sister Ray Davies – Holy Island / Perrache – Letter To Jane EP / Loula Yorke – Hydrology / Polypores – Hungry Vortex https://freq.org.uk/reviews/november-2025-roundup/ There is undoubtedly no productivity crisis in the […]
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[Original post on mastodon.social]
November 25, 2025 at 10:49 PM
November's #shoegaze & #electronica #musicreview roundup from @acloudtotheback.bsky.social with:
@soniccathedral.bsky.social
@perrache.bsky.social
@superpolar.bsky.social
@loulayorke.bsky.social
@ianboddy.bsky.social / DiN
@polypores.bsky.social
@dommartin1967.bsky.social / Feral Child
& more
@soniccathedral.bsky.social
@perrache.bsky.social
@superpolar.bsky.social
@loulayorke.bsky.social
@ianboddy.bsky.social / DiN
@polypores.bsky.social
@dommartin1967.bsky.social / Feral Child
& more
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A new boxset from Eureka Entertainment collects five films from the DEFA archives, taking in film noir, Expressionism, melodrama – and denazification
Murderers Among Us: Owen Hatherley Picks Over the ‘Rubble Films’ of Post-War East Germany
buff.ly/kI4ynxe
Murderers Among Us: Owen Hatherley Picks Over the ‘Rubble Films’ of Post-War East Germany
buff.ly/kI4ynxe
November 22, 2025 at 12:00 PM
A new boxset from Eureka Entertainment collects five films from the DEFA archives, taking in film noir, Expressionism, melodrama – and denazification
Murderers Among Us: Owen Hatherley Picks Over the ‘Rubble Films’ of Post-War East Germany
buff.ly/kI4ynxe
Murderers Among Us: Owen Hatherley Picks Over the ‘Rubble Films’ of Post-War East Germany
buff.ly/kI4ynxe
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The Fall – Seminal Live https://freq.org.uk/reviews/the-fall-seminal-live/ @Hakarl: "Do we need Fall reissues" seems like the wrong question. We're getting them and they're going to be somewhere between glut and porcelain. Though it being #thefall you take […]
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November 22, 2025 at 10:25 AM
The Fall – Seminal Live https://freq.org.uk/reviews/the-fall-seminal-live/ @Hakarl: "Do we need Fall reissues" seems like the wrong question. We're getting them and they're going to be somewhere between glut and porcelain. Though it being #thefall you take […]
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[Original post on mastodon.social]
@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
November 19, 2025 at 9:41 AM
@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
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Liv Andrea Hauge Trio – Døgnville https://freq.org.uk/reviews/liv-andrea-hauge-trio-dognville/ This curious mix of circumstances gives the album a sense of sense of statelessness; a sense that things could go in any direction, Liv's playful and ever-elegant […]
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November 19, 2025 at 9:15 AM
Liv Andrea Hauge Trio – Døgnville https://freq.org.uk/reviews/liv-andrea-hauge-trio-dognville/ This curious mix of circumstances gives the album a sense of sense of statelessness; a sense that things could go in any direction, Liv's playful and ever-elegant […]
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BODY 115 – 18 NOVEMBER, 2025
A live-streamed performance from THIS PAGE… ‘A poetic masterpiece’ ★★★★★‘One hour of literary and poetic brilliance’ ★★★★ ‘Utterly captivating’ ★★★★ On the 18th November 1987 …
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October 31, 2025 at 5:16 PM
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Keiji Haino and Reinhold Friedl – Truly, Slightly, Overflowing, Whereabout Of Good Will https://freq.org.uk/reviews/keiji-haino-and-reinhold-friedl-truly-slightly-overflowing-whereabout-of-good-will/ a darkly foreboding and quite a tough listen, but it’s […]
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[Original post on mastodon.social]
November 17, 2025 at 9:09 AM
Keiji Haino and Reinhold Friedl – Truly, Slightly, Overflowing, Whereabout Of Good Will https://freq.org.uk/reviews/keiji-haino-and-reinhold-friedl-truly-slightly-overflowing-whereabout-of-good-will/ a darkly foreboding and quite a tough listen, but it’s […]
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A passionate @freqzine.bsky.social take from @michaelrodhamheaps.bsky.social on the latest Lush archival release, worth some of your weekend reading time.
November 16, 2025 at 2:12 PM
A passionate @freqzine.bsky.social take from @michaelrodhamheaps.bsky.social on the latest Lush archival release, worth some of your weekend reading time.
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I Hold The Lion’s Paw – Potentially Interesting Jazz Music https://freq.org.uk/reviews/i-hold-the-lions-paw-potentially-interesting-jazz-music/ By some miracle the entire thing was generated from a single seven-hour session; the basic quartet of bass, drums […]
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November 16, 2025 at 12:07 PM
I Hold The Lion’s Paw – Potentially Interesting Jazz Music https://freq.org.uk/reviews/i-hold-the-lions-paw-potentially-interesting-jazz-music/ By some miracle the entire thing was generated from a single seven-hour session; the basic quartet of bass, drums […]
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Hi Res Heart – Move Fast And Mend Things https://freq.org.uk/reviews/hi-res-heart-move-fast-and-mend-things/ Where the previous album compiled four compositions from each of the three players, here a composition each from Martin, Charlotte and Martin rub […]
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[Original post on mastodon.social]
November 16, 2025 at 11:34 AM
Hi Res Heart – Move Fast And Mend Things https://freq.org.uk/reviews/hi-res-heart-move-fast-and-mend-things/ Where the previous album compiled four compositions from each of the three players, here a composition each from Martin, Charlotte and Martin rub […]
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[Original post on mastodon.social]
@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
#livemusic #gigreview
#livemusic #gigreview
November 16, 2025 at 10:47 AM
@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
#livemusic #gigreview
#livemusic #gigreview
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Immersion – WTF? After the best part of fift https://freq.org.uk/reviews/immersion-wtf/ After the best part of fifty years in the game for Colin Newman and over forty for Malka Spigel, you could be forgiven for thinking that they had run out of things to say […]
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[Original post on mastodon.social]
November 15, 2025 at 2:16 PM
Immersion – WTF? After the best part of fift https://freq.org.uk/reviews/immersion-wtf/ After the best part of fifty years in the game for Colin Newman and over forty for Malka Spigel, you could be forgiven for thinking that they had run out of things to say […]
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Lush – Gala still feels very summery to me, the staring at the sun splintering of "Sweetness And Light" -- that over driven roar that just erupts, released on a daisy-chain sparkle, something the sun-kissed cursives of "Sunbathing" heightens, scuttered in […]
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[Original post on mastodon.social]
November 15, 2025 at 1:46 PM
Lush – Gala still feels very summery to me, the staring at the sun splintering of "Sweetness And Light" -- that over driven roar that just erupts, released on a daisy-chain sparkle, something the sun-kissed cursives of "Sunbathing" heightens, scuttered in […]
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[Original post on mastodon.social]
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Should probably put the link in too... freq.org.uk/reviews/neph...
Fields Of The Nephilim / Claytown Troupe / Heathen Apostles (live at The Forum)
When I first moved to London in 1990 at the tender age of eighteen, I was in part drawn by the lure of a city offering plenty of live music. So of course the first thing I did was go to see Fields Of ...
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November 15, 2025 at 1:43 PM
Should probably put the link in too... freq.org.uk/reviews/neph...