15 49.0138 8.38624 1 0 4000 1 https://closedcap.com 300 0

Froth Opens Up About Their New Album, Their Early Years and More

0 Comments

When you dig through the various bands that make up the Los Angeles music scene, you’re definitely bound to find plenty of groups who do things their own way without any hesitation. It’s what makes that scene so vibrant and also what helps make it stand out in many ways. One of the more intriguing bands to come along in a while, LA’s Froth has certainly made plenty of waves since getting their start about seven years ago. With their 2017 album Outside (briefly) really placing them on a larger stage, they’ve returned with a more experimental approach on the recently released Duress. While in the midst of a tour supporting the record, we chatted with Joo Joo Ashworth about how the band got their start, how they went about making the new record and more.

We’d read that the band actually started out as a joke, and not really a band at all, though we felt it was something that the band could explain better than what we’d read. “When I was in high school, I had a friend in a band and we’d go see them play all the time. So, I just started telling people I had a band as well, even though I didn’t. When I decided to start an actual real band, I kept the name of the fake band which was Froth,” explains Ashworth.

Where the band’s last album was more of a shoegaze based sound, their new record has more of an experimental approach with hook filled verses. We were curious as to how the band sees themselves and if it was their goal to make the songs more accessible for this record. “We’re a new band and while we’re influenced by shoegaze, but we don’t identify ourselves as a shoegaze band. It wasn’t really our intention to make the songs that way on the new record. The more you do this, the more you realize what doesn’t need to be in a song and what does. I think for a while we looked at making records from a perspective of career, but we’ve separated ourselves from all of that. We just set out to make the album that we as individuals wanted to make,” says the guitarist.

Duress is another album produced with Tomas Dolas, yet it doesn’t have the same sound in terms of overall feel. When artists use a producer more than once, we find there’s a comfort level there that’s difficult to find in many spaces of the recording industry. “Oh yeah, we’re definitely comfortable with him. He’s been our friend since we’ve been a band. He’s taught us so much including how to engineer our own stuff and we work well with him. He’s helped us with so much that it makes recording a record so much easier,” replies Ashworth.

With the tour behind the album, the band is out for a good while on the road. Taking the tour overseas and into the Fall, the band’s sets have been pedal drenched and full of tones that cause a sonic mixture not heard often. With the new album out, it made us wonder what the trio has planned for their live dates. “Well, we’re playing just about everything off of the new album and there’s not much of the older material in our set. We get bored with playing the older stuff really easily, so for this tour it’s pretty much the new record live,” explains the singer.

Duress is available now to stream on all streaming sites and it can be purchased digitally from all online music retailers or physically directly from Wichita Recordings. Froth will be appearing tomorrow night in Houston, TX at Satellite Bar until September 14 in Eure, France at Rock in the Barn. A complete list of their upcoming appearances can be accessed here

Image Credits: Photo by Jeff Fribourg.

Previous
Next
David Garrick

David Garrick has spent the last five years interviewing some of the most intriguing and engaging artists performing today. Everyone from Angel Olsen to Phoebe Bridgers, Wire to Yo La Tengo, Snail Mail to Soccer Mommy, Ghost to First Aid Kit, The Breeders to Protomartyr, and many more. He's a giant fan of music of pretty much any genre; but especially to the underdogs. He's been known to see more concerts in a week than many people will see in a year.

0 Comments

Leave a Reply