Frost* have released the first new songs from their highly anticipated new studio album. Life in the wiresand you can watch the video for the first part of the epic title track, Life on the Net, Part 1below.
As Program reported in January, Life in the wires is a double concept album and will be released on October 18th via InsideOut Music.
“Every self-respecting prog band should really make a double album, right?” exclaims frontman Jem Godfrey, who Life in the wires by long-time Frost* colleagues John Mitchell, Craig Blundell and Nathan King. “We always had the idea of doing one. So last summer I sat down and thought, well, I just have to get my head together and do it.”
The concept behind it Life in the wires revolves around the main character Naio, a child in a modern AI world who discovers the voice of an old DJ on an old AM radio given to him by his mother, which leads him on the path to enlightenment.
“It is actually a continuation of Day and ageGodfrey explains the new album. “The first track on the new album starts with the end of the last track on this album. Repeat until faded outwhere the noise comes and a voice says “Can you hear me?”. I remember installing this when we Day and age as a possible little hook for the future; a figure somewhere out there in Day and age Land is trying to be heard. What does he want to say? Can anyone hear him? Day and age “Life In The Wires” describes, so to speak, the world in which this character lives, and “Life In The Wires” tells his story.
“With Day and agewe made it very clear: we don’t do solos, but clever arrangements. And we enjoyed that discipline, but this time I thought it would be good to move away from that position a bit. I also wanted to get a bit into the Million Town with this album, because it has been almost 20 years since Million Town came out and I am still proud of it. The 15-minute title track has some of these Million Town moments in it that were great fun to do again.”
Life in the wires will be available as a limited edition 2CD, Gatefold 180g 2LP and as a digital album, with subtle differences between the three formats making them even more interesting. The album features artwork by Carl Glover, who also designed the cover of Day and agewhich you can see below with the track list.
Pre-order Life in the wires.
Frost*: Life in the wires
CD1:
1. Skywaves
2. Life in the wire mesh, part 1
3. This House of Winter
4. The Solid State Orchestra
5. Evaporator
6. Strange World
7. Idiot Box
8. Absent friends
CD2:
1. School (Introduction to The All-Seeing Eye)
2. Propergander
3. Signs of life
4. Morality and consequence
5. Life in the wire mesh, part 2
6. Make fire
