Frank (just Frank) - The Closet Song

French coldwave (not chillwave or Cold Cave) duo Frank (Just Frank) release their debut The Brutal Wave next month via Wierd Records. You may hear the Cure in the guitar tones (or XTC's "May Of Simpleton" in the introduction to "Crisis"), but it's a distinctive and updated collection that blends icy, melancholic guitar/synthesizers, dark drum machines, post-punk, and a couple of languages. The band's sound is harder to pin down than "Parisian early '80s-inflected synth pop." One half the band (Chris) was born in NJ and grew up with the other half (Kirti) in Nice. They both went to school in London, where they listened to black and death metal before moving into the so-called "Black Wave" (i.e. coldwave + black metal) scene. Despite the t-shirt in the band's photo, you won't hear anything as extreme as that on the jangling "Coeur Hanté." It's sort of like early R.E.M. via Siouxsie and Joy Division (and the Smiths in those vocals). Put Frank (Just Frank) beside recent favorites from Tamaryn, Crystal Castles, Salem, Oneohtrix Point Never, and Blessure Grave and we're gonna have a moody summer.

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Music

Tags:

• Cold
• Wave
• Shoegaze
• Black
• Metal

[tempejo]

Has anybody got the lyrics of this song?

[BlackRadioDjs]

@tempejo I will check on my vinyl later ;)

[themonthfollowingmay]

Any idea what drum machine they used for this song?

[BlackRadioDjs]

@themonthfollowingmay Roland TR-808?

[TheAmargao]

Cool. minimal wave!!

[edgarmcfly]

chulada de maiz pinto!

[lacky964]

Einfach genial, Daumen HooocH !!!