Freakquencies: Volume 1

Manhattan’s own indie-sleaze poster boy Harrison Smith blew up with 2022’s “Girls,” a hedonistic nod to dance-punk’s mid-aughts salad days—but also for his semi-regular Freakquencies parties, which The Dare would DJ alongside fellow party-starters (Doss, Danny L Harle, Frost Children). Since “Girls,” the DJ, producer, and one-man electroclash band has released his debut full-length (2024’s *What’s Wrong With New York?*), performed “Guess” with Charli xcx live on the Grammys stage, and brought Freakquencies to clubs across the globe. On *Freakquencies: Volume 1*, the bon vivant briefly steps out from his role as band frontperson for four tracks of house for the heads, from the acid groove of “Kick” to the Ed Banger-esque euphoria of “Exhilaration.”