18.08.2024
(RAM) British progressive rockers Frost* are pleased to announce the release of their brand new double concept album “Life In The Wires”, due out on October 18th, 2024 via InsideOutMusic.
“Every self-respecting prog band should do a double album, right?” asks Frost* frontman Jem Godfrey. “We’ve always had the idea of doing one. So last summer I sat down and thought, well, I’ve just got to get my head together and do it.”
They have released the first track from the album, the first part of the album’s epic title track. The video for “Life In The Wires, Part 1” was created by Christian Rios/Ray of Light Films.
“It’s actually a continuation of Day and Age,” explains Godfrey. “The first track on the new album starts at the end of the last track on that album, ‘Repeat to Fade’, where the noise comes in and a voice says, ‘Can you hear me?’ I remember putting that in when we were doing 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 is she trying to say? Can anyone hear her? Day and Age kind of builds the world that character lives in, and Life In The Wires tells his story.”
The story revolves around the main character Naio, an aimless child heading towards a meaningless future in an AI-controlled world. He hears an old DJ talking on the old AM radio his mother once gave him and decides to track down the source of the signal and find “Livewire” to see if there is a better future out there. However, the All-Seeing Eye is not impressed with this attempt at independent thinking and strikes back. Soon, Naio is being chased across the country by an angry mob as he tries to find Livewire’s home and his freedom.
Tune in to www.lifeinthewires.com and see if you can hear Livewire on the radio.
The “classic” Frost* line-up, including guitarist John Mitchell, bassist Nathan King and returning drummer Craig Blundell, is involved in creating this parallel world.
Fans of the band’s masterful debut album, 2006’s Milliontown, will enjoy seeing the band revisit the style that made that debut one of the most successful prog rock albums of the last 20 years – a fact that was not lost on Godfrey when writing this new record.
“With Day and Age we made a very clear decision: we’re not going to play solos, but clever arrangements. And we enjoyed that discipline, but this time I thought it would be good to take a step back from that position. I also wanted to make a little nod to Milliontown with this album, because it’s been almost 20 years since Milliontown came out and I’m still proud of it. The 15-minute title track contains some of those Milliontown moments, which were great fun again.”
Life In The Wires will be available as a limited edition 2CD, gatefold 180g 2LP and digital album, with subtle differences making the three formats even more interesting. The album artwork is by Carl Glover, who also designed the cover of Day And Age. The full track listing is as follows:
CD1:
1. Skywaves 1:57
2. Life in the wire mesh, part 1 5:30
3. This House of Winter 6:10
4. The Solid State Orchestra 6:35
5. Evaporator 8:09
6. Strange World 5:09
7. Idiot Box 4:59
8. Absent Friends 3:58
CD2:
1. School (Introduction to The All-Seeing Eye) 3:12
2. Properlander 5:34
3. Signs of life 5:44
4. Morality and Consequence 8:13
5. Life in the wire mesh, part 2 15:51
Starting a Fire 4:40
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