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 #monstermovie? A #psychologicalthriller? A #spyfilm, even, with heavily codified #coldwar chic? #filmreview

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; the soft focus of the production, the ethereal keening voices, it all draws you in with open arms. It might be a little jaded, but there is always hope. #musicreview #psychedelia

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 esoteric nature of the words, describing ancient geology, are secure in their place within this wilderness. #ambient #geology #spokenword #poetry #musicreview

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 things into sharp yet warm focus for the majority of proceedings. #indiepop

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 the panic of the other find them merging into ever-deceasing circles. #musicreview

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 imbued the pieces here with a timeless air and a real sense of the soft hush of a dreamworld. #ambient #folk #musicreview

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 extension that is Fen Creatures.
... continue to turn up both the turbulence and atmospherics, the folk-psych-rock melding appears even weightier and wider in its reach. #musicreview #spacerock #dronerock #psych #folk

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 life-affirming experience that ends on an updated version of "The Hacker" that mauls supernova, stuttering in harshly beaten majesty, rough-cut keys and an urgent thrust of images that pile upon your retina in stark black'n'white. #livemusic

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 instrumental music, touching as it does on #soul, #jazz, #yachtrock and #soundtrack #musicreview

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 of unknown variables the static stutter of distant disturbances. A settled reflection sits atop a burr of metallic brogue that is alive with chatter, the ironic sound of rebellion. #musicreview #electronica

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 ragbag of survivors for whom life on Earth is a very different experience from those of their predecessors. #jazz #musicreview

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 rhythms, the cold black backdrop behind rippling with an ochre glow as John Herndon’s drums held command over the flex. #livemusic #musicreview

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 member moving in time with the music, already caught up in the atmosphere... Definitely a night to remember, like a snapshot in time reflected into the future.

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 literature professor. He follows Kenneth Branagh’s 1994 example (not to mention that of Francis Ford Coppola’s Dracula adaptation of a couple of years earlier) in prioritising fidelity to the source material, although he takes enough liberties to keep it interesting.

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 broad spheres of nouveau #shoegaze and #DIY #electronica, with complementary manoeuvres and convergence ... replete with a lot of familiar suspects from some reliable sources. #musicreview #roundup

1 year since the release of the debut album Live by my tap dance & electronics duo Øy!

Bandcamp: https://oyduo.bandcamp.com/album/live

Mirlo:
https://mirlo.space/oy/release/live

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 the rough with the less rough. It's a wheat from the chuff review. #musicreview #rerelease

Reissue of the Week: Before Aksak Maboul (Documents & Experiments 1969-1977)
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#thequietus #Reissue_of_the_Week

Tim Hill – Leviathan Whispers https://freq.org.uk/reviews/tim-hill-leviathan-whispers/ This dark and contemplative work, inspired by the blazing spike of William Blake's Albion, is a haunting torchlit journey into some imagined underworld, something the opener "The Milk White Path" unloads in plentiful supply. That farm-gate creak, bathed in a slow dronic yearn, pitted in plunging bass. #musicreview #sax #drone #psychedelia

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 #piano either shadowed or mobbed by the scattered percussion of August Glännestrand and the warm languid bass of Georgia Wartel Collins. #jazz #musicreview