Freezepop
Fantaizer
October 6th, 2020
The Archenemhy Record Company-arch51
Freezepop Biography
KICK ASS METAL Rating
100 out of 100 Skulls
Perfect Timeless Masterpiece Album
KICK ASS METAL HALL OF FAME
If there is one band that has a perfect back catalogue, who just unleashed one of the most kick ass albums of all-time, on this planet it is Freezepop “Fantasizer” .
And digging back into the back catalogue, Freezepop is the real deal when it comes to artist that innovate and will leave something behind for future generations that is a timeless masterpiece, Freezepop “Fantazier” is a true must have and of course falls into the essential category. What i love about this album it is a perfect roller coaster ride with 13 of the best songs, ever written on one disc. And each time you hear it you will have a favorite track each time. And for sure this album is a mind-blowing listening experience. With some of the best song-writing, as well as a pretty original experience in terms of the song-writing dynamics.
I do have to say if Freezepop ever does a best of album. This disc has to be disc two, because I know this album will earn classic/ legendary status.
Freezepop has been around for 20 years starting in 1999. And i recommended every release, start with the newest one 1st and work back to be debut.
Kick Ass Metal is a Avant-Garde/ Gothic/ Death Metal-age publication which means there are 1,300 genres in music, and 31 in heavy metal. So no separate publications for each genre and sub-genre. Guilty Pleasure! No way play this one loud and proud. If your new to music and you buy only one album in your life this is it!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Buy or die, this is a essential must have have, a true classic, and we have our work cut out for us. This is a KICK ASS METAL hall of fame album. Find a space in your house on the wall, and put a vinyl and compact disc, this album on display for all to see. And keep multiple copies around at all-time. It does not matter which webZine finds and discovers a album which is a true classic, what matters is this gets all over the globe, and this is a success and the band can have future endeavors, creating some of the most classic and well written music, that must be heard to be believed.
No matter who your favorite band is. Freezepop will be one of your favorite bands of all-time in no-time. Freezepop is bad ass and kick ass! Freezepop Rules !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
THE LATEST
Hi. Hello. How are you? Where are you?
Are you looking for an escape? Are you looking for a new place to be? Are you simply looking?
Allow us to introduce you to Fantasizer, the long-awaited new album from Freezepop.
The Boston synth-pop band, fresh off their 20th anniversary, return with their fifth studio album, first new music in five years, and first new LP in 10 years (2010’s Imaginary Friends). An outlet for escapism at a time when we need it most, the 13-track Fantasizer is Freezepop’s most mature and emotionally textured album yet, exploring themes that weave into the duality of our lives: the ones we live in reality, and the ones that carry us through the oft-interrupted daydreams of life.
Backed by a successful Kickstarter campaign and funded by fans, Fantasizer finds Freezepop reflecting the modern day — and being out of step, slightly, with our current reality.
Fantasizer is about needing to be somewhere else, whether that’s a hedonistic purgatory, or just a new corner of comfort deep inside your own head. It is what happens when you know the world is not meeting you where you had expected, instead preferring to create an altered pseudo reality. It’s the soundtrack to the movie in your head.
The new Freezepop album is led by its yearning lead single, “Anchor to the World Below,” a throwback track with a harmonic callback to early-’80s synth-pop and neon-coated melodies. Its black-and-white visual takes the viewer on a retro-noir journey 100 years back in time, landing at the mythical and magical Sprode Harbour circa 1920. If a colorless video set in the past is not the first thing to come to mind when thinking of the kaleidoscopic, future world Freezepop have created since 2000, that’s by design. Because this is no ordinary Freezepop record. Crafted over the past several years, which included a nearly full re-start in 2016, just as the country began to sink into a nationwide depression, Fantasizer approaches a feverish level of ambitious caution that reflects these often confusing, frustrating times.
“We hope it’s an album which acknowledges the darkness around us, but permits hopefulness,” says Sean Drinkwater.
Fantasizer’s 13 tracks cover a remarkable stretch of ground; the sound of a band comfortable in their own synth skin but also obsessed with rewriting their story. The crisp disco strobe of “Heat Lightning Hott”, the yearning synthwave of “Memory Disappears,” the bubble-gum pop bounce of the title track, the near post-punk balladry of “Heart-Rate” — Fantasizer is a greatest hits compilation disguised as an album, blending genres and styles of electronic music with the skillset of a creative force 20 years in the game. And it arrives just in time, in an age where pop music has experienced an identity crisis, and authenticity has given way to disposability and superficiality.
“We didn’t want to make some cookie-cutter album you could make on a laptop in two weeks — we certainly avoided doing that!” Drinkwater says with a laugh.
But he’s quick to get serious, because at its core, Fantasizer is a serious album: “We wanted to make an antidote to every antiseptic committee-created soulless void that passes for a pop record or a dance record in 2020. We wanted every second of this album to feel like ‘Wow, they’re really going for it. Because we did. We wanted this album to sit comfortably with the best things ever made in our genre, not just with our own catalog.”
Fantasizer swirls through an electronic-pop landscape touching down across cinematic themes of futurism, space travel, horror, human tension, cyber apocalypse, and the realities we see outside our windows each and every day. Each song is a portal, each composition a respite.
It’s ok to realize we all feel trapped, out of control, and fearful of our temporary nature. But maybe Fantasizer is more than escapism — it’s the bounciest, danciest dysphoria, and you are the star of this show.
THE BACKSTORY (FROM LIZ):
• We (Liz Enthusiasm, The Duke of Pannekoeken, and The Other Sean T. Drinkwater) formed in Boston in the summer of 1999, a time and place where electropop bands were exceedingly rare.
• Released two homemade EPs, built a website, animated a video (these things were BIG deals back then, and it even got us a writeup in Wired for our DIY-meets-techy-goodness aesthetic)
• Our debut album, 2000’s Freezepop Forever, was released domestically on our own label, Archenemy, and licensed in Europe by the Spanish indiepop label Elefant.
• In 2004, we put out our sophomore album, Fancy Ultra•Fresh. I still think of that one as being the most classically “Freezepop”-sounding album.
• In 2008, after eight years of self-releasing our music, we partnered with Rykodisc/ Cordless Recordings for our third album, Future Future Future Perfect, and the single “Less Talk More Rokk” was the iTunes #4 dance/electronic song that year.
• The Duke mostly-retired from the band and we brought Bananas Foster and Christmas Disco-Marie Sagan on board. (We do still occasionally play shows with The Duke, when we’re on the same coast.)
• The label experiment was cool, but we decided it was smarter to return to self-releasing for our next album, Imaginary Friends, which went on to receive Best Album honors in the 2011 Boston Phoenix/WFNX Best Music Poll and Best Electronic Act in the 2011 Boston Music Awards.
• Over the years, we’ve been in a ton of video games, including cult favorites Frequency and Amplitude, and the massively popular Guitar Hero series, Rock Band, and Dance Dance Revolution.
• Our tracks have been featured on TV shows ranging all the way from PBS kids’ series Arthur to The L Word.
• We and our keytars have played a great many shows over the years. We’ve hit 4 continents, and even got to play at NASA once.
SOME PEOPLE HAVE SAID NICE THINGS:
“How good is this new album? My ‘best of’ list was pretty much completed by early December, but after hearing this, I HAD to get it on my list.” — Last.fm
“A marvel, to put it mildly.” – BPM
“It’s the retro-futurism of Freezepop and their romantic, danceable, and perfectly crafted electro-pop that won our hearts.” — The Boston Globe
“The electro pop quartet fuse delightfully danceable synths to warm ethereal vocals, making for a sound that’s as intelligent as it is infectious…Freezepop cook up the perfect hybrid of dance, pop and rock—while looking extremely cool doing so.” — ArtistDirect.com
“Whatever these sexy freaks are on – we suspect they knock back sugar packets before their hyperactive shows – it’s working for them.” – The Boston Phoenix
Above pix by: Rick Webb, Violet Shuraka, Frank Veronsky, Carla Richmond, Rick Webb again, and Kevin Church.
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