Freescha

The duo Freescha, consisting of Nick Huntington and Michael McGroarty from San Francisco, California, USA, titled their 2002 album Slower Than Church Music in a manner that highlighted the contrast with their languid, reclining, and almost worshipful soundscapes. Their measured electronic dirges and detuned laments evoke the reminiscent electronica produced by Scotland’s Boards Of Canada. Tracks on the record include one referencing a soft-bodied invertebrate called ‘Mollusk’ and another serving as a tribute to religious compositions titled ‘Church Music’. By blending slowed hip-hop rhythms with sorrowful, innocent synthesizer melodies, electronic hums, and delicate piano segments, Slower Than Church Music achieves an emotional and eerie intensity comparable to Boards Of Canada’s Music Has The Right To Children. Freescha, akin to that Scottish act, tends to utilize vocal elements more for their suggestive and subconscious effects than for explicit content, resulting in voices that sound altered, slowed, and unclear when present. Although the album appeared on the Norwich, England-based imprint Shingle Street, the pair operates their independent label Attack Nine, which has issued works from Drexon Field along with Freescha’s own material such as the initial release Kids Fill The Floor.