Excited to share some updates from Frog and Avery Friedman!
Frog KEXP Session:
The video of Frog’s KEXP session for The Afternoon Show with Larry Mizell Jr. is live now! It even features an unreleased new song.
Frog’s ‘1000 Variations on the Same Song‘ is available now on Bandcamp and Spotify. Vinyl and t-shirts are also available.
The response to the record has been brilliant with sessions for WFMU and KEXP, interviews with R/Indieheads, WKDU, WZBC, WVKR, The Hobbyist, If It Be Your Will, and more. Plus, killer reviews from Pitchfork, Stereogum (Album of the Week), FLOOD Magazine, Post-Trash, The Alternative, and more.
Avery Friedman Updates:
We’d also like to thank KEXP for putting Avery Friedman’s “New Thing“ into rotation! Avery has been pretty busy since the release of her acclaimed debut album with a sold-out release show at Union Pool (Brooklyn can catch her again on August 10th at Elsewhere [Zone One] with Thomas Flynn and Hudson Freeman), and heaps of press and interviews.
Recent highlights have been an interview with Joseph Jr. Mastel of Out Front Magazine, the second-oldest independent LBGTQIA+ publication in the USA, and a wonderfully in-depth radio feature with Windsor, Ontario’s CJAM courtesy of Absent Sounds.
Plus, lots of great stuff you might have missed with The Line of Best Fit, Beats Per Minute (Track-by-Track), Atwood Magazine, Rainbow Rodeo, WNYU, Rockerilla (Italian Print Magazine), AnalogueTrash (Guest Mixtape), Love Music; Love Life (Influences Feature), Spare Notes, If It Be Your Will, OMSB Podcast, The Ugly Hug, and many others.
‘New Thing’ is out now on Bandcamp and Spotify. Cassettes are shipping now, and vinyl pre-orders (co-released with Softseed Music) will be shipping at the end of July.
Praise for ‘New Thing’:
“If you’re into intense, dreamy, subtly imaginative singer-songwriter-ly pop, people like Squirrel Flower or maybe the softer moments of Big Thief, don’t miss the debut album by the Brooklyn singer Avery Friedman. Her songs are a cocktail of anxiety and uneasy beauty with chiming, ringing arrangements that really get under your skin.” – NPR MUSIC (All Songs Considered)
“New Thing is going to be one of our albums of the year.” – ANALOGUETRASH
“Her full-length debut, New Thing, is a work of raw singer/songwriter confessionalism, evoking the knotted melodies, homespun arrangements, and searing edges of musicians like Squirrel Flower, Babehoven, or Adrienne Lenker.“ – UNDER THE RADAR MAGAZINE
“The promise you are left with as a listener, that there is a beauty in uncertainty and becoming, that flowers that die will surely grow again.” – THE LINE OF BEST FIT
“It’s not PR spin when I tell you that’ll be a contender for a spot on my AOTY list.” – ON REPEAT RECORDS
“Damn, I adored this record. I loved the writing. So image-rich and vivid, each song feels like its own universe. This is to say nothing of the diversity of soundscape – truly felt like a Writers Album.” – HANIF ABDURRAQIB
“New Thing, the scarily accomplished debut album from Avery Friedman, is all about change and growth…Friedman inhabits a complex emotional realm where nervousness can coexist with (and inform) ideas of sexiness, sadness, tenderness. Her world is fragile but appears to have arrived fully-formed.” – KLOF MAG
“New Thing is as much about community as it is Friedman’s individual journey. The album will thrill those who yearn for the days of sad indie bands in Williamsburg clubs. While Friedman and her band might be further along on the L train, they’ve moved past the detached melancholy of that cohort and instead utilize the same musical strains to confront and move beyond the pain that holds them back.” – NO DEPRESSION
“Friedman captures the uncontainable mess of being alive – the beautiful, brutal blur of becoming.” – ATWOOD MAGAZINE
“If you’re looking to fill your musical roster with one of our favorite up and coming indie pop artists, look no further than Avery Friedman!” – THE HONEY POP
“Hidden gems occasionally shine brighter than polished diamonds. Enter Avery Friedman, who’s debut LP New Thing presents itself as a labor of love. Plenty of stakes present themselves in debut efforts, but Friedman stands before audiences fearless – 5/5” – NEW NOISE MAGAZINE
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