One Leg One Eye – Crone https://freq.org.uk/reviews/one-leg-one-eye-crone/ @davros23: "..an agricultural #dystopia with #drones derived from snoring livestock and battered tractors to create an otherworldly sonic texture suggesting sleeping #horrors to be awakened." #folk #musicreview

Juli Deák – Brisk https://freq.org.uk/reviews/juli-deak-brisk/ Recorded at the Church Of The Immaculate Conception in Budapest, this suite of pieces fuses circular breathing techniques, intense rhythmic attack and percussive textures into a whole that […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

Let Spin – I Am Alienhttps://freq.org.uk/reviews/let-spin-i-am-alien/ lulling you into calmer waters after the frantic pace of the preceding tracks. Once again Let Spin show how much life there is in this #postjazz world, twisting the vaguely familiar into new and compelling shapes. #musicreview

The Stargazer’s Assistant – Modular Fields https://freq.org.uk/reviews/the-stargazers-assistant-modular-fields/ ...hiccuping hypnotics and slivering interchange shot through with darkened instabilities. A heady otherness The Stargazer’s Assistant have been […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

Gnod / Vanishing (live at Strange Brew) https://freq.org.uk/reviews/gnod-vanishing-2026/ @REEL They don’t let the intensity dip; they just hurl themselves at their instruments and search for each others’ groove. They find it, and then they keep going. We want […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

Wartel / Landæus / Wartel Collins / Wartel – Celebrating Live https://freq.org.uk/reviews/wartel-celebrating-live/ Between them they bring a wealth of experience in the free improv scene, but the first effort for this line-up is a forty-six minute journey […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

Bhajan Bhoy – Meditations https://freq.org.uk/reviews/bhajan-bhoy-meditations/ These pieces are meant for immersive listening rather than dancing; Saggar calls them prayers, tying their purpose into the meaning of bhajan, the Sanskrit term for a devotional […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

Kenny Wheeler Sextet – What Was https://freq.org.uk/reviews/kenny-wheeler-sextet-what-was/ ...an album that sees the light after thirty years and not before time, Kenny perhaps at the peak of his later and smoother era, playing with friends and concocting a […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

Coup Dur – The English Want… Coup Dur https://freq.org.uk/reviews/coup-dur-english/ Everything about this nineteen-minute selection is indeed just a joy — from the neat inviting 10” vinyl presentation right down to the deep hooks embedded in its actual grooves. #indiepop #musicreview

The Love That Remains https://freq.org.uk/reviews/love-that-remains/ From the very first shot, the director/cinematographer wreaks destruction upon the sanctity of the family unit, even affronting his own characteristic practice of telling his stories through […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

A Lilac Decline – Eternity Bores Me https://freq.org.uk/reviews/lilac-eternity/ Whilst the somewhat murky mix and generally unhurried pacing dissuade instant gratification, the slow burn approach of Eternity Bores Me will reward those already in thrall to the […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

Guttersnipe – Extinction Burst! https://freq.org.uk/reviews/guttersnipe-extinction-burst/ @REEL "...like other ‘#noiserock bands but also strangely unlike most of them in that, even at this early stage, it felt like every note was deliberate. If it sounded […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

Bristol New Music Festival: Ghost Dubs/ Emptyset / Cara Tolmie and Rian Treanor / Frankie and Kelman Duran (live at The Lantern) https://freq.org.uk/reviews/bristol-new-music-2026-2/ The people on the bill tonight feel like threads from the same dark bass […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

Seefeel – Sol.Hz https://freq.org.uk/reviews/seefeel-sol-hz/ It is this evocation of distance and stretching of time that Sol.Hz manages so well, pushing us out of a recognisable orbit; yet it engages and moves in equal measure. #electronica #musicreview

Hedvig Mollestad Weejuns – Bitches Blues https://freq.org.uk/reviews/weejuns-blues/ As on 2023's Weejuns, six tracks are collated, but here things are a little more succinct although wildly diverse in approach and once again the three draw elusive patterns […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

It’s a generous, open and enthusiastic scene: The Leaf Library interviewed https://freq.org.uk/reviews/leaf-library-interview/ Our community values this music a great deal and is very good at sharing things that have been uncovered that we might have missed […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

Colour Out Of Space International Experimental Sound and Music 9 https://freq.org.uk/reviews/colour-out-of-space-9/ A hefty ole' weekend of #experimental music. And what's more, a works social for a lot of people from around the place. And perhaps we could […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

Nicolas Leirtrø’s Action Now! – Entrance https://freq.org.uk/reviews/nicolas-leirtros-action-now-entrance/ It is a really human sound that they produce and an explosion of voices just adds to the joy. The flute is ragged and out of breath, as if being chased […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

Bristol New Music Festival 2026: Orcutt Shelley Miller / Cole Pulice (live at Strange Brew) https://freq.org.uk/reviews/bristol-new-music-2026-1/ It is cosmic and dusty, like a long road across a desert. It is windblown music, or rather music than rides into […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

Martin Archer and Claire McAllister – Mast Year https://freq.org.uk/reviews/archer-mcallister-mast/ ...a pure delight and so wide-ranging, with Martin’s ability at arranging as well as writing for choir and group proven to be a natural progression; but with […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

The Reds, Pinks And Purples – Acknowledge Kindness and interview with Glenn Donaldson: “now I guess I make simple pop music recorded at home” https://freq.org.uk/reviews/reds-pinks-purples-acknowledge/ I might be the only person that thinks the self-titled […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

Xmal Deutschland – The Complete Peel Sessions https://freq.org.uk/reviews/xmal-deutschland-peel/ this recent 4AD culmination of their four Peel Sessions gives you an excellent band primer. The first four tracks airing months before their debut LP Fetisch was […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

The Stranger https://freq.org.uk/reviews/the-stranger/ ..feels less like a moralising history lesson and more like a pained cry of remorse, whose cinematic language has the steely nerve to ask the hard questions and refuse to answer them for you. #existentialist #filmreview #albertcamus

Godspeed You! Black Emperor / One Leg One Eye (live at The Troxy) https://freq.org.uk/reviews/godspeed-one-leg-troxy/ @davros23 .. scenes of desolate forest, urban strip malls, industrial zones, police brutality, stock market tickers and images of technical […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

Tangerine Dream – 50 Years of Phaedra: At The Barbican https://freq.org.uk/reviews/tangerine-dream-50-phaedra/ ..breathes new life in to fifty-year-old material that, even if the three original members were performing it today, they would no doubt change and […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

Joe Harvey-Whyte and Geir Sundstøl – Langeleik https://freq.org.uk/reviews/joe-harvey-whyte-and-geir-sundstol-langeleik/ ...an album of languorous drifting beauty that follows the folds of rivers and the pale glint of sunlight on sleepy backwaters in a series […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

Nanjo Asahito – M / Musica Transonic + Mainliner – Solid Static / Ohkami no Jikan – Black Tape II https://freq.org.uk/reviews/black-editions-pile-up-1/ There's a bit of a cultish collectorism about a lot of #Japanese #psych (certainly the record prices bear […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

Taupe – Waxing | Waning https://freq.org.uk/reviews/taupe-waxing-waning/ ..a tight, tight thing. Playing so close they are almost picking one another's pockets, their take on '#cubist #jazz' fits the term perfectly; all hard angles and unexpected facets. #musicreview

Project Hail Mary https://freq.org.uk/reviews/project-hail-mary/ ..a crowd-pleasing and at times genuinely wondrous mixture of scientific curiosity and human warmth, speaking a common language of optimism in the hope of rising above the din of a real world […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

The Doomed Bird Of Providence – Meteoric Heralds of Danger https://freq.org.uk/reviews/doomed-heralds/ ...has once again gathered a reflective and expressive group ..to do justice to a suite of pieces reflecting on themes inspired by Marcus Clarke's 1874 […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

Map 71 – The Feral Jinx https://freq.org.uk/reviews/map-71-the-feral-jinx/ Always difficult to categorise, the seven tracks presented here show even more scope in their tribal noise attack, with Lisa's vocals particularly diverse ranging from half-expected […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

Jarboe – Sightings https://freq.org.uk/reviews/jarboe-sightings/ Loving the meditative space Sightings affords the listener, Jarboe’s drone-registered voice affixed to reverberating gong and paddling percussive on "Holy Waters" as strings and blown […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

Angine de Poitrine – Vol II https://freq.org.uk/reviews/angine-de-poitrine-vol-ii/ @Hakarl It’s kind of amazing just how popular that KEXP performance is.. so they’re very much a hot ticket in 2026 ..Angine de Poitrine do a bang-up job of investing some new […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

Bare Skin https://freq.org.uk/reviews/bare-skin/ Five strangers who have all experienced various forms of extreme trauma have all come together to attend a group therapy session run by the ominously-named Dr Hedonia. This gives them all the opportunity to […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

The Monochrome Set – Lotus Bridge permalink% ...a classy esoteric selection that finds the group in excellent form and still adding quality to The Monochrome Set legacy. #indie #musicreview https://freq.org.uk/reviews/the-monochrome-set-lotus-bridge/

Cult Figures – Reports Of People / The Pillars Of Creation – Be Careful What You Wish For https://freq.org.uk/reviews/precious-april-26/ ...for its springtime produce Precious Recordings has switched supply channels to parachuting in a batch of new releases […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

Comet Gain – City Fallen Leaveshttps://freq.org.uk/reviews/comet-gain-city-fallen-leaves/ Although the band had bedded in by now, the songs and direction were very much David's responsibility and across the sixteen delightfully ramshackle tracks collected […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

Freq is has been spinning around this world wide web thing for 28 years today - thanks as ever to all the contributors past, present and future who make it what it is. #happybirthdaytous

Ben Cardew – Space Age Batchelor Pad Music: The Story Of Stereolab In 20 Songs https://freq.org.uk/reviews/ben-cardew-space-age/ The short chapters mean that it is easy to pick up and put down and one of the book's qualities is that it isn't necessary to […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

Memorials – All Clouds Bring Not Rain https://freq.org.uk/reviews/memorials-all-clouds-bring-not-rain/ Stretching the twosome’s multi-instrumentalist and sound design talents to the max ... All Clouds Bring Not Rain piles an immensity of layers on and around […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

Alexander Hacke – Blast: Distorted Memories – From Einstürzende Neubauten to Symphonic Drone a comfortable read, no daunting blocks of text and plenty of archival black and white pics to entertain you along the way. Each chapter’s contents is conveniently […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

Pan•American – Fly The Ocean In A Silver Plane https://freq.org.uk/reviews/panamerican-fly/ Whilst it takes some patient listening to peel back the hidden layers contained within, the pensive Fly The Ocean In A Silver Plane provides plentiful rewards through […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

Scholars Of The Peak – The Seawatch Observatory Tapes https://freq.org.uk/reviews/scholars-seawatch/ Whereas its predecessor saluted the scenery of the Peak District across a smorgasbord flavoured with kosmische Tortoise-tinted post-rock and retro-futuristic […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

‘Laurie Spiegel remembers the legendary experimental composer and synthesist Eliane Radigue (1932–2026)’ in this e-flux article https://www.e-flux.com/notes/6783469/in-memory-of-liane-radigue-1932-2026 #experimentalmusic #electronicmusic #experimental #music

Keiji Haino (live at The ICA) https://freq.org.uk/reviews/keiji-haino-live-at-the-ica/ ..it's certainly singular and perhaps dry, but it's equally a showing of some breathtaking capacity for keeping the listener on their toes. He closes with some leaping and […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

The Bride! https://freq.org.uk/reviews/the-bride/ The #Gothic romance of James Whale’s 1935 #horror classic The Bride Of #Frankenstein is drastically relocated to #Prohibition-era Chicago and New York, although that element of #camp which made the original […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

Plankton Wat – The Vanishing World https://freq.org.uk/reviews/plankton-wat-the-vanishing-world/ ...brings together older material that has been fermenting in other canonical places with newer pieces cooked-up afresh between the foursome. The result is an album that intrepidly tips a lot into a […]

Tuva Halse – Reconnection https://freq.org.uk/reviews/tuva-halse-reconnection/ ..thoughtful, measured shapes of the violin are carefully released and there is an air of subtlety to the support, with even the warm caress of the bass providing a sense of solace. The arms around the shoulders allow […]

Maninkari – L’Océan Rêve Dans Sa Loisiveté 4th Session / Daniel Szwed – Standard Cap https://freq.org.uk/reviews/maninkari-locean-reve-dans-sa-loisivete-4th-session-daniel-szwed-standard-cap/ The latest two releases from experimental label Rope Worm find French improvisational duo Maninkari and […]

Harry Christelis – Preserving Fictions https://freq.org.uk/reviews/harry-christelis-preserving-fictions/ There are hints of #jazz inflection here and there, but the album offers far more: a very personal view that recognises some tropes but disguises them with their own subtle sway. In places […]