UK
progressive rockers Frost* recently announced the release of their
brand new double concept album ‘Life In The Wires’, due out 18th October 2024 via InsideOutMusic. “Every prog band worth their salt really should do a double album, shouldn't they?” asks Frost* frontman Jem Godfrey. “We've
always kind of had this idea of wanting to do one. So I sat down last
summer and thought, well, I'm just gonna have to get my head down and go
for it.”
Today sees the release of the third single from the album, titled ‘Idiot Box’
Jem comments of the track:
“The
cover of our album ‘Day And Age’ was five figures standing with
megaphones, blasting out their message as loud as possible. The
observation was that the world loves to broadcast now, but isn’t so keen
on listening. As ‘Life In The Wires’ is a continuation of ‘Day And Age’
so ‘Idiot Box’ is a further exploration of that idea. At this point in
the story, the Meso are burning with a quiet rage because Naio’s more
interested in listening than talking. He has a different opinion and any
difference of opinion must be eradicated! That’s the trouble with
living in this day and age, the writing’s on the wall. Thankfully he’s
got one eye skywards and is not a boy that stands still…
Christian Rios has delivered another neon dream glimpse into Naio’s world with the fantastic video that he managed to complete as Hurricane Helene was bearing down on him last week so serious kudos to him for that.”
Stream the single & pre-order the album here: https://frost-band.lnk.to/LifeInTheWires
Watch the video for ‘Life In The Wires, Part 1’ here: https://youtu.be/TIH8Zy728q0
Watch the video for ‘Moral and Consequence’ here: https://youtu.be/ms3Tpx2ZqKo
“It’s actually a continuation from Day and Age” explains Godfrey, “the
first track on the new album starts with the end of the last track from
that album "Repeat to Fade," where the static comes up and a voice says
"Can you hear me?”. I remember putting that in when we did Day and Age
as a possible little hook for the future; a character somewhere out
there in Day and Age land trying to be heard. What does he want to say?
Can anybody hear him? Day and Age kind of sets up the world that this
character lives in and Life In The Wires tells his story”.
The
story revolves around the main character Naio, an aimless kid heading
for a meaningless future in an A.I. run world. He hears an old DJ
talking on the ancient AM radio his mother once gave him and decides to
trace the source of the signal and find “Livewire” to see if there’s a
better future out there. However, the All Seeing Eye is less than
impressed at this bid for independent thought and fights back. Soon Naio
finds himself pursued across the country by an outraged mob as he tries
to locate the home of Livewire and his freedom. Tune in at www.lifeinthewires.com and see if you can hear Livewire on the radio.
Helping
create this parallel world are the “classic” Frost* lineup of guitarist
John Mitchell, bassist Nathan King, and returning drummer Craig
Blundell.
Fans
of the band’s masterful debut album Milliontown (2006) will enjoy the
band revisiting the style that made that debut album one of the most
successful prog rock albums of the last 20 years, a fact that was not
lost on Godfrey as he was writing this new record.
“With Day and Age, we made it a very specific point: we're not doing any solos, we'll do clever arrangements. And we enjoyed that discipline, but this time I thought it might be good to row back on that position a bit. Plus, I wanted to have a little bit of a nod to Milliontown with this album, because it's been nearly 20 years since Milliontown came out and I’m still proud of it. The 15-minute title track has a few of those Milliontown moments in it which were great fun to do again.”
‘Life In The Wires’ will be available as a Limited 2CD, Gatefold 140g 2LP & as Digital Album, with subtle difference across the 3 formats for added interest. The album features artwork design by Carl Glover, who also designed the cover of ‘Day And Age’.
FROST* online:
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