Embracing the coming darkness of
a Chicago winter, Pink Frost debut the "psychedelicious"
new video for "Where
Days Go" from the Gargoyle
Days LP on Impose.
I’ve been waiting for the ‘90s to come back for ages.
And here comes Perry Farrell’s wayfaring punk rock little sister, Pink Frost,
releasing the music video to “Where Days Go,” displaying precocious psychedelic
flair. Formerly known as Apteka, the Chicago outfit will be delivering
the The Sun” b/w “You Should Know 7-inch soon, which we know because we've seen the laquers being cut.
Awash in captivating reverb,
swirling melodies and soaring, anthemic refrains, Gargoyle Days
explodes between the umbra and the sun. To hear more from the LP, give a listen
to lead single, "Striking
Violet."
Watch the release video for Gargoyle
Days to hear the title track from the new LP.
For more music, check out this
video featuring Pink
Frost scoring Shepard Fairey and Obey and give a listen to the release named
one of the Top 2010 albums from Chicago Indies by the Chicago
Tribune, the Traitors
7".
Press praise for Pink
Frost
While it's nice to see Billy Corgan again get his act
together, write some proper tunes and not berate his fans, the fact is this
local act is out-smashing Smashing Pumpkins. Pink Frost's storming new
Gargoyle Days makes the new Jane's Addiction sound hugely unnecessary,
too."
Time Out
The group's talents are thrown into stark relief and you
realize how finely crafted the band's music is
Chicagoist
With a heady mix of Black Rebel
Motorcycle Club, the epiphanal rush of shoegaze, with the intensity of Jane’s
Addiction they’re truly the great band that’s flown under your radar too
long.
The Dumbing of
America
Gargoyle Days is the
most addicting local release I’ve had the pleasure of listening to this year. I
can’t listen to one track without spinning a handful more. It’s been fairly
disgusting, actually, how commonplace it’s been for me to listen to Gargoyle
Days from beginning to end and then go: “Well, that was nice. And now let’s
go and do that again.” Full disclosure: It probably goes without saying that
Gargoyle Days will be at or near the top of my year-end list when I get
around to writing it… “Striking Violet” is wonderful.
Chicago Tunes
An increasingly commanding
quartet that embraces the power of guitar drone, tribal drumming and the deep,
shoegaze-era swoon.
Chicago
Tribune, Traitors 7” Top 2010 albums
from Chicago Indies
If snowstorms shed sparks or
cicadas caught fire. If you longed so much for something that you could never
sleep again. Or if all your friends started playing electric guitars at
once.
Said the
Gramophone
With its chiming guitar,
churning rhythms, expansive atmospherics, and keening, melodic vocals, the song
presses the same buttons as classic Ride. I expect good things from this band,
and soon.
Chicago
Reader
This scrappy Chicago rock band
takes the DIY-values of Pavement, the wide-eyed excitability of Dinosaur Jr. and
the frantic, flourished drumming of Keith Moon, tosses it all into a blended,
and slathers it with a thick coating of shoegazer fuzz that would make My Bloody
Valentine proud…a sonic maelstrom of energy blasting through your speakers, all
teetering guitar and an ambiance that makes it sound as if it was recorded
during the middle of a huge blizzard.
The Brown
Noise
Pink Frost weaves a curious star
bound tapestry that falls between the generic staples of shoe gaze, tear arsing
shimmer toned power pop and fringe flicking shade adorned lysergic psyche
groove, the thumping ‘cicada song’ sound like a wired and antagonised early
career Ride re-sculpturing discarded Barrett Floyd / 13th Floor Elevators motifs
while ‘the sheet’ it seems is currently streets ahead on the listening count
though sadly the blighter refused to play for us - gremlins in the machinery I
gather.
Losing
Today
Take the breathiness of
Stoned And Dethroned era Jesus and Mary Chain and English shoegazer
harmonies, along with an album-consistent palpitating beat. Best of all is the
way the whole track leads somewhere - soft beginnings to strongly strummed
reverb drenched guitars, to fierce and sheathing keys, to - finally - an
amalgamation of all the above. This song, in particular, is four minutes of
satisfaction.
Drone Magazine on “If
You Were Here”
About Pink
Frost
Pink Frost used to go by the name Apteka. Pink Frost is
Adam Lukas, Dave Narey, Jesse Hozeny, Ted Appert and Mark Frost. We are from
Chicago. We play rock music. We like large kick drums, tube amplification and
face melting.
Gargoyle
Days
gargoyle days
striking
violet
in clouds
where days go
this
time
voices
gravesend
monterey
we know time
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The group's talents are thrown into stark relief Pink Frost's storming new Gargoyle Days makes the new Jane's Addiction sound hugely unnecessary, too.
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