THE TOMEKA REID QUARTET - dance! skip! hop! LP Techno before the label of 'shoegaze'

before the label of 'shoegaze' was grafted onto the kind of punk-rooted noise that was intent on little more than making red glitter run out of your ears

This edition from Freedom To Spend is the first authorized reissue of this holy grail since 1976

Far be it from us to tell you that this is one of the best records of the year

Originally self-released on vinyl and cassette

” But it also works at a level of poetic abstraction

THE TOMEKA REID QUARTET - dance! skip! hop! LP Techno before the label of 'shoegaze'350 copies limited edition* The Tomeka Reid Quartet dance! skip! hop! featuring the steady quartet of Tomeka Reid (cello) with Mary Halvorson (guitar), Jason Roebke (bass), and Tomas Fujiwara (drums). Soon after finishing these compositions in June 2025, Reid realized that much of the music made her want to dance. Inspired by the title of Josh Bermans stellar A Dance and a Hop, as well as her tendency to skip in public, the title dance! skip! hop! was