“After a hectic tour around the country in support of our frenetic club album SPEED RUN, we were sentenced to a 2-week retreat in the Poconos at a tiny A-frame cabin by a lake,” start Frost Children. Hailing from St. Louis, Missouri, the duo just released their second album, Hearth Room, a follow-up work to April’s debut Speed Run. While some songwriters might find inspiration in the mundanity of the chaos of big cities, the siblings found solace and tranquillity in the mountains in Pennsylvania to start working on this self-recorded album last Spring, a process that they recorded in the film “Hearth Room (The Documentary),” directed by Jakob Lazovick.
“It is here where we found what is so rare in the city: a chance to slow down and focus on sturdy trees, think poetically about how the light slants at dawn, and other adjacent beautiful phenomena,” they share. Fearing total estrangement from society, they invited longtime collaborator and friend Jacob Lazovick (Voyeur, Sitcom, Powered by Wind) to join the creative plethora for a few days with camera equipment. “What happens next is the first-ever simultaneous performance of parallel micro-eras right before your eyes. Songs just appear in the Poconos, like ripe cherries descending from a string of notes. Fast and slow, dark and light, quiet and loud—it seems like the world forces us to stay on one side our whole lives. But what if you could have both, all the time?”
If Speed Run served as a stretch to Frost Children’s electronic pop roots, Hearth Room symbolizes a return to the more unplugged and insular atmospherics of the ever-prolific and experimental duo, a movement that can be easily felt in the documentary, drenched in sensibility and raw connections. “In my time with the Frost Children, I’ve always been struck by their effortless ability to cultivate,” shares director Jakob Lazovick. “Rather than shape-shifting themselves in order to fit in, they reach out and pull anything of interest into their orbit; making it entirely their own and adding to an ever-growing maximalism. I feel endlessly inspired by both Angel and Lulu, and my time with them in the Poconos was beautiful.”
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