{"id":71435,"date":"2021-09-22T10:42:54","date_gmt":"2021-09-22T09:42:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/essentiallypop.com\/epop\/?p=71435"},"modified":"2021-09-22T10:42:54","modified_gmt":"2021-09-22T09:42:54","slug":"fritch-we-lose-our-cool","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/essentiallypop.com\/epop\/2021\/09\/fritch-we-lose-our-cool\/","title":{"rendered":"Fritch &#8211; &#8216;We Lose Our Cool&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<h4 style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Opening with eerie vocals that bring to mind Bowies \u2018Black Star\u2019, UK based band Fritch create a complex and layered soundscape in their new single <a href=\"https:\/\/fritchmusic.bandcamp.com\/track\/we-lose-our-cool\">\u2018We Lose Our Cool\u2019<\/a> which is due for release on the 1st October.\u00a0<\/strong><\/h4>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The first of a trio of singles leading up to their new album, \u2018We Lose Our Cool\u2019 is as unnerving as it is comforting, with the glossy piano at odds with the dissonant vocals.\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">A song of two halves, \u2018We Lose Our Cool\u2019 builds through piano and synth textures to culminate in a shifting soundscape that feels close to resolution, leaving you with a sense of closure. \u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Rippling synths create a fluid murmur throughout the track\u2019s ending as the vocals fade away, like haze being burned from a sunny day.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201c<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">What begins as a warning of a love close to loss in the heat of an argument\u2019s cool-off, slowly weaves into new sets of textures.\u201d explains <\/span><b>Fritch<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, who are able to perfectly capture the swell and ebb of emotion.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Although the vocals have a slightly unnerving effect to the start of the song, \u2018We Lose Our Cool\u2019 is an intricate meshing together of sounds and feelings, that resolves to a sense of calm, highlighting the band\u2019s mastering of portraying emotions through song.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><b>Fritch<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> maintain their ability to create a sense of wonder and lush isolation with \u2018We Lose Our Cool\u2019 which follows on from their 2020 debut \u2018How\u2019s the View There\u2019.\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Born on a laptop in the United States and Vietnam, <\/span><b>Fritch<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> found a home in England and South Wales. An ever evolving collective, the band weaves together Dream Pop, Dark Wave, Post Punk and Shoegaze.\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Their debut album was released with Russia\u2019s Other Voices Records and UK label <a href=\"https:\/\/ratsontherun.com\/category\/the-music\/\">Rats on the Run<\/a>.\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Their upcoming album, featuring \u2018We Lose Our Cool\u2019, is due to land November 2021.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Follow\u00a0<strong>Fritch<\/strong> on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/Fritchmusic\">Facebook<\/a> to stay up to date with new releases and live dates.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Listen to more\u00a0<strong>Fritch<\/strong> on <a href=\"https:\/\/fritchmusic.bandcamp.com\">Bandcamp<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/artist\/4KpkpT9Gjf6KOK9ymVFWKr\">Spotify<\/a>, and <a href=\"https:\/\/music.apple.com\/gb\/artist\/fritch\/1500121758\">Apple Music<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Opening with eerie vocals that bring to mind Bowies \u2018Black Star\u2019, UK based band Fritch create a complex and layered soundscape in their new single \u2018We Lose Our Cool\u2019 which is due for release on the 1st October.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":85,"featured_media":71436,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_seo_schema_type":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[7,9,21453,21445,21446],"tags":[23682,23619,24288,28014,12366,28010,1725,2828,28011,1531,2463],"class_list":["post-71435","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-music","category-new-releases","category-new-singles","category-reviews","category-single-reviews","tag-newsingle","tag-singlerelease","tag-amie-k","tag-amie-kitainik","tag-blackstar-david-bowie","tag-dark-wave","tag-dreampop","tag-essentially-pop","tag-fritch","tag-post-punk","tag-shoe-gaze"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5yMhl-iAb","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":31947,"url":"https:\/\/essentiallypop.com\/epop\/2017\/12\/hugo-valentine-trouble\/","url_meta":{"origin":71435,"position":0},"title":"Hugo Valentine &#8211; &#8216;Trouble&#8217;","author":"Essentially Pop","date":"15\/12\/2017","format":false,"excerpt":"London singer songwriter Hugo Valentine has played the piano since the age of 4 and was trained classically. 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