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Well, when I first heard of Frost when looking at the website of Solution Productions, who were going to plan a ProgPassion 2 festival in october at De Boerderij, Zoetermeer (Holland). The line-up included MOONGARDEN (Italian), FOR ABSENT FRIENDS (Dutch), LAZULI (French), with KAZ LUX (Dutch) in the small cafe....until Moongarden canceled and they hired two top-notch prog acts: PALLAS (UK) and FROST. When I saw the line-up, I was expecting something great. ARENA, IQ, JADIS, KINO, THE URBANE...they all belong to bands I like. Jem Godfrey was a new face for me....some producer guy behind pop groups. Oh well.

When I took a good listen to Frost from a library lend, I was disappointed. I'm not much into prog-pop, which is essentially what Frost is. The first track, "Hyperventilate", is instrumental and a great proggy song. The others, however, have loads of poppy elements in it. Predictable structure of songs, simple lyrics that makes it easy to memorize them, and tons of studio samples, sound effects and the like. "The Other Me" sounds a lot like GARY NUMAN'S TUBEWAY ARMY's "Are Friends Electric?" to me. Jem Godfrey's voice is rough...very rough. Has he been smoking or something? It fits the music okay, but he is definately not a great singer if you ask me.

I'm not even going to waste time on explaining the other songs, for they don't interest me all that much. If you're into prog-pop, you'll probably like this. I can't say I care overly much for the poppy things, though. Same reason why I don't like bands like MUSE.

I'm going to see them live in october, and I'll probably have fun, plus a meet & greet with the band. And yes, I'll probably purchase their future albums as well, just 'cause I like collecting stuff. Don't get me wrong. Frost isn't a bad band at all. It's just not my cup of tea.

Yours, Tailscent