Keith Freund

There's something undeniably satisfying about Freund's music; the Akron-based multi-instrumentalist has been recording and collaborating for almost two decades, and his solo output is casual and intimate. It's like hearing someone rehearsing in their bedroom studio, playing to their own internal rhythm and disrupting the session with shonky hand-made gadgets. There's nothing overly complicated going on, but Freund never lets the music unfurl without interference, whether it's from bitcrushed samples, unstable synths or swirling delays.