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 accompaniment warmly blur, folding into a respiring abstraction of leisurely repeat.
Monthly Archives: April 2026
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It’s kind of amazing just how popular that KEXP performance is and, correspondingly, how much their first album goes for. UK shows are sold out already, so they’re very much a hot ticket in 2026 ..Angine de Poitrine do a bang-up job of investing some new life into the old rock beast.
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 tell their stories in turn — which gives us the opportunity for a neat new anthology movie that also clings to a single story, straddling the divide between the two forms.
Based on a dream Bid had a couple of years ago, this ten-song cycle has a jaunty lilt to the rhythms that ebb and flow in thrall to hiss unfurling imagination. There is still a loucheness to the delivery, but the voice is softer now and perhaps because of the subject matter perhaps a little less arch.
...for its springtime produce Precious Recordings has switched supply channels to parachuting in a batch of new releases.. two distinctive new albums arrive ..which lean heavily into the reconstituted veterans wing of the enterprise. #indie #musicreview
Freq has been online in various forms since 1 April 1998; this iteration has been around as of 2010, with an archive of older material available.