SLUSH EP OUT JUNE 10 VIA ARTS & CRAFTS
NORTH AMERICAN TOUR DATES BEGIN TODAY
LISTEN TO AND SHARE “RINGWORM” HERE
"It's visceral. It spits." - Noisey
PHOTO : CAITLIN MCLAFFERTY
The Toronto-based four-piece FRIGS recently announced signing to Arts & Crafts for the release of a new EP, Slush, out June 10 and have already shared a video for the EP’s first single, “God Hates A Coward”. Now you can hear a new track from the EP, “Ringworm” today courtesy of Noisey.
Having been re-recorded several times throughout multiple iterations of the song, “Ringworm” is a bit of an oddity for FRIGS. “It kind of stuck out to us, we don't really write short upbeat tracks like this,” says Bria. “Lyrically, I wrote it at a time when I felt like I was surrounded by arrogant men who felt superior to me and everyone else around them, which in turn made them overconfident in their ‘courting’ methods. I don't wanna sound preachy or anything but, I think a lot of women can relate to that feeling when there are men in their life, even if it is only briefly, who make them roll their eyes and feel annoyed. But at the same time feel a kind of indifferent exhaustion. So, I guess the song is just a fuck you, whatever, you are a brat, goodbye I'm going to live my life.”
FRIGS is made up of Bria, Duncan, Lucas, and Edan. The band pairs the raw, emotional grunge of PJ Harvey with the immersive, psychedelic post-punk of early Sonic Youth. With each member bringing a unique set of influences, FRIGS creates a sound that is hard to pin down and an impression that’s unshakable.
Led by the force of Bria’s vocals, the band has earned a reputation for putting on a hypnotic and visceral live performance. Embracing the mercurial and experimental, their shows are built upon instinct; a vocal growl can unexpectedly give way to a hushed whisper; languid drones boil over into guttural and searing tones.
As members of Toronto’s multi-disciplined Heretical Objects Cooperative, community and collaboration are essential to FRIGS approach and aesthetic. Maintaining the communal, do-it- yourself spirit of their forebearers, the band bought recording equipment and turned their Toronto apartment into a studio where they wrote, engineered, and mixed their forthcoming EP, Slush.
WATCH AND SHARE “GOD HATES A COWARD” HERE
NORTH AMERICAN TOUR DATES
Jun 02 - Toronto - Smiling Buddha *
Jun 03 - Hamilton - Baltimore House *
Jun 08 - Peterborough - The Spill *
Jun 19 - Sudbury - The Townhouse *
Jun 23 - Calgary - Sled Island - Broken City (Patio) %
Jun 28 - Edmonton - The Buckingham
Jul 01 – Vancouver, The Cobalt
Jul 02 - Nanaimo - Crace House
Jul 03 – Victoria, BC – Copper Owl
Jul 05 - Seattle - Blacklodge
Jul 06 - Portland - High Water Mark
Jul 07 - Oakland - Sgraffito
Jul 08 - Los Angeles - TBA
Jul 10 - Albuquerque - Gold House
Jul 11 - Denver - Rhinoceropolis
Jul 12 - Omaha - TBA
Jul 13 - Columbia - Cafe Berlin
Jul 14 - Carbondale - House Show
Jul 15 - Chicago - The Hideout
Jul 20 – Thunder Bay, ON – The Foundry
Aug 06 – Toronto, ON – Time Festival ^
August 20 - Ottawa - Arboretum Festival
* w/ Blue Crime
% w/ Protomartyr, Chastity
^Run The Jewels, Broods, Bob Moses
SLUSH EP TRACKLIST
01 Diana
02 Ringworm
03 God Hates A Coward
04 TV
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