kisses – You Are In My Dreams https://freq.org.uk/reviews/kisses-you-are-in-my-dreams/ ..this second full-length set from Melbourne’s capital letter-averse kisses has a lot to live up to... the quintet’s own utterly sublime self-released eponymous album from 2024 #musicreview

John Haughey and Tarotplane – Errata https://freq.org.uk/reviews/john-haughey-and-tarotplane-errata/ ...a product of near-seamless mind-melding that traverses multiple timelines of choice historic influences, without any fashion-focused anxiety. #electronica #kosmische #musicreview

Isabelle Bodenseh – Dignity https://freq.org.uk/reviews/isabelle-bodenseh-dignity/ opens with a five-part suite that delves into Isabelle’s feelings of dignity .. with the other players lending a hushed setting which allows the flute to travel, snaking carefully and wavering gently as the […]

Whitelands – Sunlight Echoes https://freq.org.uk/reviews/whitelands-sunlight-echoes/ Having first emerged somewhat tentatively with 2024’s unwieldily titled Night-bound Eyes Are Blind To The Day debut, London-based #shoegaze adherents ... return on their […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

Bellbird – The Call https://freq.org.uk/reviews/bellbird-the-call/ If you imagine a post-hardcore band had ditched guitar and voice and replaced them with two saxes, this is the sound you would have.. things start out one way and end up somewhere else, tone […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

Jane Weaver – The Fallen By Watch Bird (Expanded Edition) https://freq.org.uk/reviews/jane-weaver-fallen/ ..an affectionately assembled archival bundle, which documents a simultaneously earthy and ethereal transitional phase in Jane Weaver’s distinctive […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

“Because it’s there, because we can, because of the story”: Ian Button interviewed …right at the very start of another busy year of activity – with several bouts of live Heavenly bookings to fulfil upfront — Ian openhandedly gave over time to tell all on his […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

Maggie Nicols / Robert Mitchell / Alya al-Sultani – Immersion (Discus) ..they run through all manner of vocal styles and manners ... from spoken to shrieked and from a bubbling murmur to an intense hammering. #spokenword #poetry #improv #musicreview […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

Maggie Nicols / Robert Mitchell / Alya al-Sultani – Immersion https://freq.org.uk/reviews/nicols-mitchell-alsultani-immersion/ ..they run through all manner of vocal styles and manners ... from spoken to shrieked and from a bubbling murmur to an intense […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

Orchestra Of The Upper Atmosphere – Theta Seven I was disappointed to discover that Theta Seven will be the last outing for the Orchestra Of The Upper Atmosphere, but it might be due to the group’s remit of “proposing an alternative reality in which all […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

RE: https://sonomu.club/@DoS/115979929627554610 #cassette #avantgarde #music #mailart

Cindytalk – Sunset And Forever https://freq.org.uk/reviews/cindytalk-sunset-and-forever/ ..the artwork’s suggestive shapes feel texturally tethered to the audio’s pitted surface – artwork and sound a collaborative whole, each feeding the other. As much as I […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

Jimi Tenor Band – Selenites, Selenites! Although Jimi Tenor is renowned as a solo artist, he is also a serial collaborator; but for the first time, during the pandemic, he drew a band around him of local musicians to bring to life some of his delightful […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

No Other Choice https://freq.org.uk/reviews/no-other-choice/ Park Chan-wook cooks up another idiosyncratic blend of thrills and satirical dark #comedy with this sublimely ridiculous tale of a newly redundant paper manufacturer so intent on getting his next […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

SOL SOL – Oscillations https://freq.org.uk/reviews/sol-sol-oscillations/ Long trailing notes are peeled over the sway of the rhythm section. The other three carefully assemble sounds around the sax, delivering a statement of intent that is gradually dissected […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

Karl Bartos – Communication https://freq.org.uk/reviews/karl-bartos-communication/ ..there is a surprising variety in the styles and delivery. He pays particular attention to the vocals, which are nearly all effected in some way and they range from the sweet […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

Penelope Trappes – Æternum https://freq.org.uk/reviews/penelope-trappes-aeternum/ ...Her first release for OLI, A Requiem, came out back in the spring of 2025, but there was more material left over from the sessions that demanded release; so Æternum gathers […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

Urlaub in Polen – Objects, Beings And Parrots …as the album progresses, so more facets are revealed, the incessant rhythms coated with twangy guitar, subterranean bass and synth embellishments adding fuel before the inevitable explosion into the stratosphere. […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

Pullman – III / Winged Wheel – Desert So Green https://freq.org.uk/reviews/pullman-iii-winged-wheel-desert-so-green/ Supergroups as a mainstream proposition appear seem to have largely become a thing of the past, in part due to the music industry’s latter-day […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

Hanna Paulsberg Concept with Elin Rosseland – Himmel Over Hav https://freq.org.uk/reviews/hanna-paulsberg-himmel/ It has been seven years since the last Concept album and although the line-up remains the same, with Trygve Fiske on bass, Hans Hulbækmo on drums […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

Pusher / Pusher II / Pusher 3 https://freq.org.uk/reviews/pusher-trilogy/ Nicolas Winding Refn’s #Pusher trilogy, recently released in a handsome #bluray slipcase set by Second Sight films, not only offer a hectic thug’s eye view of Copenhagen low-life, they […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

Omrum – Bringer Of Light https://freq.org.uk/reviews/omrum-bringer-of-light/ All four members are part of the fertile Copenhagen #jazz scene and regular collaborators with other artists but here, Erik Kimestad, Mads Hyhne, Richard Andersson and Jakob Høyer […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

Hamnet https://freq.org.uk/reviews/hamnet/ The film articulates the emotion of grief in all its slings and arrows, with a dedicated and sometimes painful sense of reality. It reminds us that, while #shakespeare ’s work may be immortal, in his life mortality lay all around him. #filmreview

Uneven Eleven – Live in Brighton https://freq.org.uk/reviews/uneven-eleven-live-in-brighton/ a] heavyweight collaboration between bassist Guy Segers, percussionist Charles Hayward and guitarist Kawabata Makoto. Recorded live in Brighton back in 2013, the […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

The Earlies – These Were The Earlies https://freq.org.uk/reviews/the-earlies-these-were-the-earlies/ ... drifting #psychedelia and charming fuzzy #pop ...still sounds great twenty-one years on and will sound great in another twenty-one years. #musicreview

The Twinsets – Peel Sessions 82-83 / Jetstream Pony – Riley and Coe Session 09.04.25 https://freq.org.uk/reviews/the-twinsets-peel-sessions-82-83-jetstream-pony-riley-and-coe-session-09-04-25/ After a relentlessly prolific and steadily diversifying 2025, it’s […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

Trond Kallevåg – Minnesota https://freq.org.uk/reviews/trond-kallevag-minnesota/ ..ruminates in the relationship between Norway and the United States, particularly on the flow of migrants in the nineteenth century. Having spent some time on the remote island […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

Alex Marker and Ben Reed – Impostor Syndrome https://freq.org.uk/reviews/marker-reed-impostor/ Whilst the arrestingly cheesy-peculiar front cover .. is rather offputtingly redolent of something you might easily flick past in a car boot sale crate of […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

Sondre Moshagen Lightning Trio – Lightning https://freq.org.uk/reviews/sondre-moshagen-lightning-trio-lightning/ ...although ostensibly #jazz, the pieces recorded here run through a real mix of styles from light impressionism to dramatic rhythmic workouts. #musicreview

Matt Pond PA interviewed and Several Arrows Later at twenty: “I wouldn’t trade lives with anyone — this is who I am” https://freq.org.uk/reviews/matt-pond-pa-interview/ Both a revolving door group and a single-minded mission, Matt Pond PA .. the […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

Ivar Grydeland – Bøyning, Brytning https://freq.org.uk/reviews/ivar-grydeland-boyning-brytning/ Utilising, electric, #pedalsteel and Portuguese guitars along with electronics, his sparse, diffuse sounds evoke the lull of the surface and the mystery of the depths. #musicreview

Aksak Maboul – Before Aksak Maboul (Documents and Experiments 1969-1977) https://freq.org.uk/reviews/before-aksak-maboul/ It is absolutely great that these pieces have found the light of day after all these years and is an essential addition to what is a […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

Malpertuis https://freq.org.uk/reviews/malpertuis/ With #cosmichorror having made something of a sly comeback in recent years.. there’s never been a better time to immerse yourself in the secrets of this strange, physics-and-architecture-defying house and its […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

Wreckless Eric – England Screaming https://freq.org.uk/reviews/wreckless-eric-england-screaming/ ...an acute observation of a time in this country when things seemed remarkably bleak; but it doesn't jeer or harass, just observes and reports. It just so […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

Clock DVA – White Souls In Black Suits https://freq.org.uk/reviews/clock-dva-white-souls-in-black-suits/ ... a solid slice of guitar / synth graze, psychologically skewered on Adi’s impassioned delivery ...White Souls In Black Suits is a welcome #ClockDVA […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

Black Mound Sound Lab label showcase – Dark Star Light Star / Don Mandarin / Philip Gibbs / Tit Whistle and Broom (live at The Exchange) https://freq.org.uk/reviews/black-mound-sound-lab/ Paul Horlick has long been one of the of the most influential people on […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

Jay Kelly https://freq.org.uk/reviews/jay-kelly/ Noah Baumbach invokes the self-reflexive spirits of all the great directors who’ve made movies about making movies with this great-looking but languorous and elementally compromised comedy-drama that follows a […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

Possession https://freq.org.uk/reviews/films/possession/ To be fair, you can see why this film would have been annoying / perplexing to reviewers back in 1981, and many of those issues remain. It is genre-(and gender-)bending in every way. Is it a […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

The Besnard Lakes – The Besnard Lakes Are The Ghost Nation https://freq.org.uk/reviews/the-besnard-lakes-the-besnard-lakes-are-the-ghost-nation/ ...really does come with a wave of enthusiasm as he and the band welcome you again into their dream-like world […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

Matt Howden and Keith Howden – Language For Stone https://freq.org.uk/reviews/matt-howden-and-keith-howden-language-for-stone/ Keith's voice is from that landscape, and his love of the outdoors comes through in the warm northern English tones; but the […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

Tulpa – Monster Of The Week https://freq.org.uk/reviews/tulpa-monster-of-the-week/ after a snaky Sebadoh-infused instrumental prologue to usher us in (“Theme”), we’re firmly thrust into a series of tune-stuffed songs, with Josie’s magnetic vocals pulling […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

Ravage – Ravage https://freq.org.uk/reviews/ravage-ravage/ ...create their own soundworld that turns its back on classical and folk for the most part and beats the strings into gnarled new shapes. Momentum appears from nowhere and the soar of one #violin and […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

Frostlake – Shattered Stone https://freq.org.uk/reviews/frostlake-shattered-stone/ Multi-instrumentalist Jan Todd's fourth album has Frostlake has her once again teaming up with Terry Todd to provide bass tones; but the addition of Andy Peake on piano has […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

Fuzzy Lights – Fen Creatures https://freq.org.uk/reviews/fuzzy-lights-fen-creatures/ Having recalibrated themselves somewhat with 2021’s towering epic Burials, Cambridge’s https://bsky.app/profile/fuzzylightsband.bsky.social return belatedly with the logical […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

Clock DVA / Ramleh (live at Signature Brew) https://freq.org.uk/reviews/clock-dva-ramleh-live-at-signature-brew/ There’s a falling spaceman on screen and you feel the helplessness in the sonic tumble of those sharpened melodics rush on over you. A […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

Sven Wunder – Daybreak https://freq.org.uk/reviews/sven-wunder-daybreak/ Swedish composer 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 […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

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 […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

Will Glaser – Music Of The Terrazoku: Ethnographic Recordings From An Imagined Future https://freq.org.uk/reviews/will-glaser-music/ Terrazoku: an Earth tribe of the future brought into being by the climate apocalypse of the late twenty-first century; a […] [Original post on mastodon.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 […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

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 […] [Original post on mastodon.social]