Artist · chart history
Freur
Band Cardiff United Kingdom Active 1982–1986
Freur formed in 1982 in Cardiff, United Kingdom and was active until 1986. Freur has 17 chart appearances on 17 radio countdowns from 5 stations on RockLists, spanning 1983–2022. The most successful song on radio countdowns is “Doot Doot”, which appears on 17 lists with a best position of #28. The station that charted Freur most often is KROQ (Los Angeles, CA), with 6 appearances. The artist’s biggest year on year-end countdowns was 1983.
Freur came out of Cardiff in 1982 with a sleek synth-pop sound and one song that wormed its way into the ear and stayed: "Doot Doot", the title track of the 1983 album Doot-Doot. It's all glassy keyboards and a vocal that floats more than it sings, the kind of record that sounds beamed in from a rainy art-school future.
Art school is exactly where it started. Karl Hyde and Rick Smith had already worked together in the Screen Gemz, and Freur was their second go, with Bryn B. Burrows and Alfie Thomas filling out the lineup. In Britain "Doot-Doot" stalled at No. 59; New Zealand took it to heart and pushed it to No. 17.
The band was done by 1986, but Hyde and Smith were only getting started. They went on to form Underworld, which makes Freur the strange, shimmering first chapter of a much longer story.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
Songs by Freur on radio countdowns
Albums with charting songs
Where each song was first released, from MusicBrainz.
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