Liam Frost – Introducing
For some artists, three years dominated by broken hearts, the spectre of bereavement and wrangles with their record company would be the perfect excuse to churn out a set of self-pitying songs. But Liam Frost has synthesized his experiences into “We Ain’t Got No Money, Honey, But We Got Rain”, a brilliantly soulful pop record that mixes sweet melodies with tantalizingly dark undertones. Make no mistake this is a totally fantastic album, right up there with my favourite releases of 2009.
Since the release of his 2006 debut, the gloriously haunting ‘Show Me How The Spectres Dance’ LP, Liam has endured a tough and challenging time that made the writing of this record harder still. As Liam himself explains …
“I did a support slot with the Magic Numbers and I was literally sat backstage shaking. I didn’t realize at the time but have been made aware of it since,” Liam admits. “I was in a bad way. There were judgments being made from inside the record label so lord knows what it would have been like if I was the sort of person who reads YouTube comments.”
The recovery came from spending time staying with his sister back home in Prestwich, Manchester and more radically, on a trip to the Arctic in 2007. Liam took part in Cape Farewell, a project which takes artists and scientists to places where climate change is truly apparent, taking the place of Jarvis Cocker on a small boat sailing to Greenland. “I was so seasick and didn’t say anything for the first six days,” he says. “I didn’t write any blogs or emails. People thought I’d lost my marbles. I got more emails than anyone because I hadn’t said anything.
Shedding his old backing band ‘The Slowdown Family’, Liam Frost has comfortably written a hugely uplifting record and one that affirms him, as Guy Garvey once correctly stated, as a much to be cherished young British songwriter.
Liam releases a haunting duet featuring Martha Wainright called “Your Hand In mine” on Emperor Records January 18th. The album is out there now! Check him on Myspace, he is right up there with Simon Aldred (Cherry Ghost) as one of the Northwest’s finest!!
www.myspace.com/listentoliamfrost
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