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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.

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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
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Another review in for 'Hydrology' (DiN94), the new album from @loulayorke.bsky.social over @freqzine.bsky.social.
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"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...
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November 26, 2025 at 9:08 AM
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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 😌
Hydrology (DiN94), by Loula Yorke
6 track album
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November 26, 2025 at 4:18 PM
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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
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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November 25, 2025 at 10:49 PM
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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

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November 22, 2025 at 12:00 PM
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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
@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
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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
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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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November 17, 2025 at 9:09 AM
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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
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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
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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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November 16, 2025 at 11:34 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
November 16, 2025 at 10:47 AM
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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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November 15, 2025 at 2:16 PM
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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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November 15, 2025 at 1:46 PM
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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 […]

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November 15, 2025 at 1:17 PM
@michaelrodhamheaps.bsky.social When Phew starts it’s a slow hypnosis of slippery sounds, her voice recoiling a merry-go-round full of twisty vapours... sounds are rich, roll into each other with stretchy squishability I totally warm to. #avantgarde #livemusic #gigreview
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Phew / Freddy Murphy (live at the Jam Jar)
When Phew starts it’s a slow hypnosis of slippery sounds, her voice recoiling a merry-go-round full of twisty vapours. This bamboo beat is introduced, whipped in rhythmic rat tails and trapped moth zi...
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November 10, 2025 at 11:03 PM
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Lovers – Lettres d’Amour Linda Oláh and Giani Caserotto have been in various separate bands for the best part of twenty years, with Linda also spending time with the French Orchestre National de #jazz. Having known one another for some time, this is their […]

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November 7, 2025 at 1:58 PM
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Kreidler – Early Recordings 1994-95 Some tracks from the cassette release Riva and their first untitled vinyl release have been compiled to show how quickly the basic idea of Kreidler fell into place. Some of the assembled tracks are tiny snippets that seem […]

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November 7, 2025 at 1:37 PM
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NEW FLC. More essential journeys through weird worlds from the absolute master of it.
I’m really excited to share my new album ‘Apeiron Anxiety’ with you - available from @castlesinspace.bsky.social Bandcamp & the best record stores ;)

(Also,happy cosmic birthday to you, dad. I owe you everything & miss you every day x)

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Apeiron Anxiety, by Field Lines Cartographer
5 track album
fieldlinescartographer-cis.bandcamp.com
November 7, 2025 at 12:56 PM