{"id":47725,"date":"2022-08-16T11:00:56","date_gmt":"2022-08-16T16:00:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/beintheloopchicago.com\/?p=47725"},"modified":"2022-08-16T10:56:54","modified_gmt":"2022-08-16T15:56:54","slug":"chicago-indie-punk-band-pink-frost-returns-after-5-years-with-big-nin-smashing-pumpkins-hooks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/beintheloopchicago.com\/?p=47725","title":{"rendered":"Chicago Indie-Punk Band, Pink Frost, Returns After 5 Years With Big NIN, Smashing Pumpkins Hooks"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\n
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Chicago band Pink Frost share a new track from their first new album in 5 years today via New Noise Magazine. Hear and share “Two Faces” HERE<\/a>. (Direct Bandcamp<\/a>.) Pre-order\/pre-save album Linktree<\/a>.<\/div>\n
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Brooklyn Vegan recently premiered the video for album title track “Until The Summer Comes” HERE<\/a>. (Direct YouTube<\/a>.)<\/div>\n
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\u201cIt was a new torture, the waiting,\u201d says Pink Frost vocalist\/guitarist Adam Lukas.<\/div>\n
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When life suddenly froze for all of us, it wasn\u2019t the downtime that was unbearable, it was the growing uncertainty as time dragged on that all of our loose threads would ever be connected.<\/div>\n
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The Chicago band had just completed recording their fourth album \u2014 splitting the studio time with sister band Touched By Ghoul (whose 2020 Cancel The World album title proved prophetic) \u2014 when plans to reconvene in France with longtime engineer Gregoire Yeche to mix in April 2020 became impossible.<\/div>\n
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When Gregoire eventually returned to Chicago in 2021, life in limbo seemed the new normal. Yet, the band felt somehow liberated. \u201cWe were like \u2018F**k it, let’s make our dream record,\u2019\u201d Lukas says. \u201cWe went in depth in a way we never have before.\u00a0There are no compromises on this album.\u00a0No cringeworthy oversights. We almost lost our minds doing it, but I’m happy we did.\u201d<\/div>\n
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Indeed, the 9-song album is a feast of hooks and subtle transformations that shows both a slight return to the band\u2019s previous indie-punk take on Smashing Pumpkins style oversized alt-rock, and their ever-growing palette of shoegaze, drone and anthemic rock. There\u2019s even an almost peak NIN, Wax Trax industrial vibe to some tracks that underscores how the band continues to wield new ideas.<\/div>\n
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\u201cWe lost (guitarist) Paige Sandlin during the pandemic,\u201d Lukas says. \u201cBut gained Angela from Touched By Ghoul, who now plays guitar and contributed some vocals on the LP, and brings a whole new excitement to the live show.\u201d<\/div>\n
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Until The Summer Comes was recorded in Chicago at Steve Albini\u2019s legendary Electrical Audio with longtime engineer Gregoire Yeche, just as the band has done on New Minds (2017), Sundowning (2013) and the Traitors EP (2014). \u201cElectrical Audio is almost like another member of the band at this point,\u201d Lukas says. \u201cThere is a purity to their method that captures the essence of the performance and preserves it in this magical 3-D way.\u201d<\/div>\n
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The album opens with the title track\u2019s thumping toms in a marching rhythm, soon joined by buzzing fuzz guitars before the whole song erupts in a huge chorus with chunky guitars reminiscent of peak Downward Spiral era NIN. \u201cTwo Faces\u201d is an explosive diatribe driven home by bassist Alex Shumard\u2019s lunging 4-string. \u201cOn A Clear Day (You Can See The End of The World)\u201d sets a Beatles-esque acoustic guitar led melody atop psychedelic haze and rollicking drums. \u201cHalo\u201d serves up a lush shoegaze ballad in which drummer Nate Furstenau nods to My Bloody Valentine\u2019s hybrid of drum machines and live drums for powerful effect. \u201cFeed The Hungry Bee\u201d closes the album with a repetitively building tension that leads into a dramatic finish that\u2019s certain to be a live favorite.<\/div>\n
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Pink Frost\u2019s previous albums received an onslaught of praise from such revered outlets as Pitchfork, SPIN, Noisey, Brooklyn Vegan, Magnet Magazine and Chicago Reader, as well as song placements in a feature film (“The Lookalike”), TV’s Shameless, The Rookie, The Vampire Diaries, CSI: Miami and more.\u00a0In December 2015, Pink Frost released a completely remixed, rethought and remastered version of their debut album Gargoyle Days, originally issued under the band\u2019s former name Apteka.<\/div>\n
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Until The Summer Comes will be available on LP, CD and download on September 16th, 2022 via Under Road Records.\u00a0Pre-orders are available HERE<\/a>.<\/div>\n
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PINK FROST LIVE 2022:<\/div>\n
08\/20 Chicago, IL – Sleeping Village w\/ Bodega<\/div>\n
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Artist:\u00a0Pink Frost<\/div>\n
Album:\u00a0Until The Summer Comes<\/div>\n
Record Label:\u00a0Under Road Records<\/div>\n
Release date:\u00a0September 16th, 2022<\/div>\n
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01. Until The Summer Comes<\/div>\n
02. Two Faces<\/div>\n
03. Halo<\/div>\n
04. On The Way Down<\/div>\n
05. The Skink<\/div>\n
06. Ask The Dust<\/div>\n
07. Detroit Mercy<\/div>\n
08. On A Clear Day (You Can See The End of The World)<\/div>\n
09. Feed The Hungry Bee<\/div>\n
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On The Web:<\/div>\n
pinkfrost.bandcamp.com<\/a><\/div>\n
underroad.com<\/a><\/div>\n
instagram.com\/thepinkfrost<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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