Keith Freund
Window Left Open (LP)
LabelSoda GongGenreExperimental
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*300 copies limited edition* Keith Freund’s music occupies a space where careful musicianship and homebrewed experimentation meet and shake hands. On “Window Left Open,” spacious melodies drift through dense fields of electronic activity: saxophone lines rise above buzzing circuitry, percussion flickers at the edges of the frame, and clustered glitch textures dart through the music like insects in tall summer grass. Every sound feels vividly animated, a charged part of the same mercurial ecosystem.
Freund’s talent lies in balancing warmth and unpredictability with remarkable ease. Patient motifs recall the exploratory spirit of early folktronica, while bit-reduced textures, degraded loops, and idiosyncratic synthesis techniques continually reshape the terrain beneath them. Rather than treating acoustic and electronic elements as opposing forces, Freund allows them to intermingle until distinctions dissolve, creating compositions that reward close listening while retaining immediate warmth. This record finds Freund working with a fully formed vocabulary that is truly his own, transforming glitch, melody, improvisation, and atmosphere into songs that are both fundamentally curious and disarmingly engaging.
Release notes
Edition of 300 copies, gloss-laminate finish. Black vinyl in white poly-lined inner.
| A1 | Pressure Drop | ||
| A2 | Therm 7 | ||
| A3 | Over Sidewalk Bryum | ||
| A4 | Kiosk Sleeping | ||
| A5 | I'll Find A Place For Us | ||
| B1 | Hands Around Warm Ceramic | ||
| B2 | Running Thru The Rain | ||
| B3 | Spots On The Ceiling | ||
| B4 | Where The Water | ||
| B5 | Came In |
- Alex McCullough
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- Felix Luke
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