{"id":79292,"date":"2023-10-08T16:22:55","date_gmt":"2023-10-08T21:22:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kjhk.org\/web\/?p=79292"},"modified":"2023-10-08T16:22:55","modified_gmt":"2023-10-08T21:22:55","slug":"a-night-with-frost-children","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kjhk.org\/web\/2023\/10\/08\/a-night-with-frost-children\/","title":{"rendered":"A Night With Frost Children"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u201cNever doubt the openers!\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Written by: Kira Holden<\/span><\/p>\n

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Okay, let me clarify. I went to this concert for the opener, as did quite a lot of other people I talked to. Don\u2019t get me wrong, George Clanton put on an outstanding headlining performance. But for many people, it was Frost Children who stole the show. The NYC-based duo sure knows how to captivate an audience, and if I was sure of one thing based off the crowd after that show \u2013 a LOT of them are new Frost Children fans.<\/p>\n

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\"\"The group\u2019s eclectic mix of genres blend in a way that is so hard to describe, I\u2019m not even going to try. reaching everything from hyperpop, indie, and even folk, it\u2019s clear there\u2019s something for almost everyone to enjoy. Not to mention the fact that even though the group is fresh off of a new album (Speed Run, which came out back in April on True Panther), they have another, Hearth Room, dropping in November. Needless to say, they had a lot to choose from when coming up with a setlist \u2013 and they did not disappoint!<\/p>\n

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This was easily the most energetic crowd I\u2019d ever seen for an opener. Then again, it almost seemed like it was the most energetic opener I\u2019d ever seen, period. The band leapt right into an all-out, aggressive set, barely slowing down until the very end with their new track \u201cLethal\u201d, which in and of itself represents a shift with the band\u2019s new album \u2013 while they\u2019re known for being heavily electronic, this new track\/album sees the band explore an acoustic direction, however it still fits seamlessly into their Repertoire.<\/p>\n

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I caught up with Lulu and Angel after the show to hear more about the creative thinking behind the two albums, as well as to hear more about their biggest tour to date.<\/p>\n

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What are your thoughts this far into the tour? How\u2019s it been being on the road <\/strong>this long?<\/strong><\/p>\n

L: \u201cIt\u2019s been really fun. It\u2019s the longest we\u2019ve been away from NYC in a long time.\u201d<\/p>\n

A: \u201cIt\u2019s fun being in Kansas, though. We\u2019re from Missouri, it brings us back to our roots.\u201d<\/p>\n

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I saw a photo on your Instagram with Dyche Hall in the background. What made <\/strong>you stop by campus?<\/strong><\/p>\n

A: \u201cWe shot, like, our promo photos for the merch that we made here, because on the way to Las Vegas where our first show was, we stopped in Lawrence because it was kinda in the middle. And I woke up thinking, \u2018We gotta go shoot it at like an Ivy League looking building\u2019, so… yeah, shoutout Dyche Hall.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Have you guys done anything else while you\u2019ve been in Lawrence?<\/strong><\/p>\n

A: \u201cWe went to this thrift store across the street, Wild Man. I got this skirt [worn on-stage]… it\u2019s an exact replica of a skirt I usually wear, this blue and white tennis skirt that I got in Long Island, but it\u2019s brown and orange… it\u2019s kinda like a Speed Run\/Hearth Room vibe. We went to Fuzzy\u2019s Tacos, too.\u201d<\/p>\n

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So you guys are putting out two albums this year, with Hearth Room coming in <\/strong>November. Was it a case of having a lot of material, or wanting to do something <\/strong>different?<\/strong><\/p>\n

A: \u201cYeah, we wanted to put out two albums this year… just cause. One was us, like, at the clubs, a real reflection of us at the clubs. We were DJing almost every other night in New York, making money, partying, etc… I kinda felt like I was just this Williamsburg New York character, this like, hipster that was aging at like 5x speed, and I was like… I already feel myself wanting to make like a folk album. As we were making these club-ready DJ songs, I was like, f##k it, I also want to make this folk record… then I hit my head really hard in May right when we started making it, and it just kinda switched something in my brain.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Wow, you guys really must have made the record fast then, if you started in May.<\/strong><\/p>\n

A: \u201cYeah, there\u2019s songs that I\u2019ve been tossing around in my head. You know, write something, voice memo it, how should it sound, etc… indie as hell, I think a lot of indie rock people are gonna start listening to it.\u201d\"\"<\/p>\n

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One last thing, do you have any advice for breaking the confidence barrier for <\/strong>someone getting into playing music?<\/strong><\/p>\n

A: \u201cA big thing for me was getting into Gary Wilson, we have a song with him on our album Spiral called \u2018Mayfly\u2019, he\u2019s like this really old head, made, like, funk albums in the 70s and stuff. His performance art is really just, like, freak of nature type stuff. Yeah, just kind of embracing the vibe and culture of the music you do, really.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

\u201cNever doubt the openers!\u201d Written by: Kira Holden   Okay, let me clarify. I went to this concert for the opener, as did quite a lot of other people I talked to. Don\u2019t get me wrong, George Clanton put on an outstanding headlining performance. But for many people, it was Frost Children who stole the show. The NYC-based duo sure knows how to captivate an audience, and if I was sure of one thing based off the crowd after that […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":79279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8747,15,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-79292","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-concert-reviews","category-featured-on-kjhk","category-music"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/kjhk.org\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/FrostChildrenmain.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kjhk.org\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79292","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kjhk.org\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kjhk.org\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kjhk.org\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/18"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kjhk.org\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=79292"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/kjhk.org\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79292\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":79303,"href":"https:\/\/kjhk.org\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79292\/revisions\/79303"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kjhk.org\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/79279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kjhk.org\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=79292"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kjhk.org\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=79292"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kjhk.org\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=79292"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}