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Breaking the mold. Shattering barriers. Exceeding the norm. All clichés that define something that goes beyond expectations even as far as setting new expectations for everything else. Welcome to the wonderfully insane world of Frolic, a band known for defying all traditional rules of music, performance, and entertainment. Frolic believes that every person out there can be entertained, regardless of what medium is used. By producing a hybrid brand of punk, rock, and alternative, Frolic has shown that this brand of stage entertainment is exactly what the people of the United States, even the world, are looking for.
Frolic began as most bands do. Garages, sweat and budding talent combined with hours of work formed a solid work ethic that has become synonymous with Frolic. Christian wrote the songs with a terrific supporting cast. The three-piece began playing parties and very local shows. As the band gained steam, an explosive development period began. Songs were written at a breakneck pace and the group started to roll. Frolic began playing shows at such local venues as the Dog Star Café, Zombies, and Club Nowhere, all located in the Dallas/Fort Worth area. The band also decided to record a five-song demo tape, which was well received by local clubs. As the band's following began to gain strength, the act became tighter, and the music benefited. . Newer, more exciting material followed, and the response was tremendous. A second demo was recorded, much to the excitement of Frolic fans. A track of the local Twin Buddha and Red Square Records compilation, "Cowboys in Tokyo" was dedicated to Frolic.
The band realized that to rise to the next level, something was needed. Being a three piece left a lot of open spaces in the music that needed to be filled. Frolic found another guitarist to fill in those holes, and the band was operating at a new level of energy. Things looked good after the addition. The band played on, as they say, expanding into venues such as the White Rabbit in San Antonio and the Steamboat in Austin. Finally, the lineup was complete. The songs started pouring in, and a CD project was started and finished with the release of their debut album "Everything Must Burn" realeased in April of 2000. And that is where we sit today, with Frolic playing shows around the State with acts such as Fastball, Baboon, The Tomorrow People, The Hunger, Flickerstick, and even Cheap Trick. |
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Album Review:
Frolic - "Everything Must Burn" Self-released
Despite the relative youth of the band (the eldest, bassist Hoek, is the laughably ancient age of 24), Frolic displays a firm grasp of the radio friendly Alterna-rock idiom.
Everything Must Burn rolls, rocks and even rages within the constrained frames pioneered by the likes of Silverchair and left coast, angst-ridden ax wranglers Everclear. Christian Sly, vocalist, guitarist and lyricist, is possessed of a fine fibrous voice that can breathe warmth into some of his less prepossessing, and somewhat youthfully excessive, songs such as "You Always Wanted to Die," a tune that is lifted beyond its chugging guitar line and pedestrian lyrics by Sly's venomous snakebite delivery.
Even the album's obligatory ballad, replete with a mournful cello line that highlights Sly's vocal timbre, drips a professionalism that belongs to a much older group of musicians.
-- Colin Maycock
Taken from the Fort Worth Weekly from the "Listen Up" section on stands for August 3-10, 2000. |
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Location:
Kennedale TX, U S A
frolic Website
frolic@frolicweb.com
Regular Tour Area:
Southwest regional United States and growing stronger |
