"I beginning to feel, this is really real..."
The latest from Birmingham (UK) based rock duo First Frontier, the fevered "Edging" with it's choppy crush and sexual innuendo, feels like a noisy collision of iconic 70's punk. As I gleefully moshed by myself in my living room, much to the consternation of my wife downstairs, I thought of both L.A. punk gods X and Long Beach, Cali's Suburban Lawns. Paul Stafford rabid guitar strikes and strident vox couple with Helena Poole's blistering tom tom beats and half dreamy / half laissez faire backing vox made me flash further on John Doe and Exene.
Paul and Helena share:
EDGING is a about the frustration of trying to achieve something but never quite making it to where you want to be. That feeling when you’re expending energy, fuel, time, hope but every time you stop to check how far you’ve come, you’ve barely moved. This is a song for anybody who ever tried a thing and it didn’t work out as planned. It’s an ode to every plan gone awry, every dream tarnished, every attempt missed. And it’s an homage all of those people who get up, brush themselves off, and keep on trying.
-Robb Donker Curtius
THE FACTS AS WE KNOW THEM - PRESS NOTES:
https://www.facebook.com/firstfrontiermusic
https://twitter.com/firstfrontieruk
https://firstfrontier.bandcamp.com/
https://firstfrontiermusic.com/epk
https://www.instagram.com/firstfrontiermusic/
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCPEQmo9o6lxUTKC233Ipg0Q
https://soundcloud.com/firstfrontier
https://open.spotify.com/artist/5Ntx9GCyRUK4CRVYURxxid
South London garage rock duo, First Frontier, make spirited, upbeat music to move to and be moved by. They have unleashed the frenzy of their energetic rhythms and soul-searching, upbeat lyrics on audiences since 2019. Their captivating music blends broad influences and passes the resulting tunes through a garage rock filter. First Frontier choose hope over fear and play over fight.
First Frontier are Helena Poole pounding drums and Paul Stafford twanging guitar, with both sharing the vocal duties. They are Brummie banter and Northern grit forged anew in the South London cauldron. Their music has been described as neo-garage, post-punk and alternative rock.
They met in 2016 when the status quo of the UK was upended and found solace and normality in one another. It wasn’t until 2019 that this started to manifest itself musically, as a counterpoint to all the negativity and frustration; as an outlet that takes things back to basics and homes in on what’s important, what brings us all together and what sparks joy: upbeat music. First Frontier was born. The not so great lockdown of 2020 allowed them time to write songs and build foundations for the power duo band you see and hear today.
When it all came spilling out in rhythm and verse, everything started to make sense. In this age of one hundred social revolutions, they asked themselves: how can we help? How do we hinder? What’s the glue that connects rather than divides? From these questions came an answer in the first single: Take Cover about focusing on what we can control and devoting positive energy to that, rather than on the great litany of uncontrollables.
First Frontier's songs are a gleeful celebration of the good and an examination of the complexity of existence that invites people to participate in rejecting the mundanity of everyday life by escaping together in music and living life to the effing max.
THE FACTS AS WE KNOW THEM - PRESS NOTES:
https://www.facebook.com/firstfrontiermusic
https://twitter.com/firstfrontieruk
https://firstfrontier.bandcamp.com/
https://firstfrontiermusic.com/epk
https://www.instagram.com/firstfrontiermusic/
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCPEQmo9o6lxUTKC233Ipg0Q
https://soundcloud.com/firstfrontier
https://open.spotify.com/artist/5Ntx9GCyRUK4CRVYURxxid
South London garage rock duo, First Frontier, make spirited, upbeat music to move to and be moved by. They have unleashed the frenzy of their energetic rhythms and soul-searching, upbeat lyrics on audiences since 2019. Their captivating music blends broad influences and passes the resulting tunes through a garage rock filter. First Frontier choose hope over fear and play over fight.
First Frontier are Helena Poole pounding drums and Paul Stafford twanging guitar, with both sharing the vocal duties. They are Brummie banter and Northern grit forged anew in the South London cauldron. Their music has been described as neo-garage, post-punk and alternative rock.
They met in 2016 when the status quo of the UK was upended and found solace and normality in one another. It wasn’t until 2019 that this started to manifest itself musically, as a counterpoint to all the negativity and frustration; as an outlet that takes things back to basics and homes in on what’s important, what brings us all together and what sparks joy: upbeat music. First Frontier was born. The not so great lockdown of 2020 allowed them time to write songs and build foundations for the power duo band you see and hear today.
When it all came spilling out in rhythm and verse, everything started to make sense. In this age of one hundred social revolutions, they asked themselves: how can we help? How do we hinder? What’s the glue that connects rather than divides? From these questions came an answer in the first single: Take Cover about focusing on what we can control and devoting positive energy to that, rather than on the great litany of uncontrollables.
First Frontier's songs are a gleeful celebration of the good and an examination of the complexity of existence that invites people to participate in rejecting the mundanity of everyday life by escaping together in music and living life to the effing max.
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