Geelong garage heroes The Frowning Clouds have just released an absolute pearler of a record titled Legalize Everything (out via Rice Is Nice).
Challenging their own specific brand of jangly 60s psych pop, The Frowning Clouds always know how to be both excitable but still the chillest guys in the room. Like label mates Richard In Your Mind and close buddies King Gizzard And The Lizard Wizard, The Frowning Clouds are championing the resurgence of all nonsense (but killer) garage pop and we can’t get enough.
Recorded and mixed by Stu Mackenzie, (King Gizzard) and mastered by Mikey Young, Legalize Everything is your new soundtrack to welcome in the summer. The band’s Zak Olsen gave us a track by track run down behind the making of the LP.
Carrier Drone
“About being in Australia after being in Europe and wanting to get back there. Nick (van ßakel) plays a violin on it.”
Our House
“Retuning to the roots, going home, touching base, me time with Wah-Wah solo to boot.”
Mind Body Sun Particle Experience
“We tried a cowbell on this, sounded horrible so now it’s got no cowbell.”
Move It
“Daff (Gravolin) sent a triumphant battle riff via a USB stick. The intro on this track is actually from his demo version. Moving house is a pain in the arse.”
Dead Growth
“Nick’s home demos are real cool and we usually find ourselves trying to replicate the demo when trying to re-record it. In some cases it’s just better to use the demo.”
Radio Telescope
“Stu (McKenzie, producer) had this audio fad gadget that could actually tap into what people were thinking and play it out over the monitors. We weren’t even that surprised when Harmer had a go and this is what we heard back. Beautiful.”
Inner Circle
“Another triumphant battle riff. This songs running title was ‘Monks’. One of our favourite bands and an attempt to simulate their sound.”
No Blues
“Australia is a nice place with good people, no real pain, no real reason to complain.”
Leopard Print Tint
“Had tried to record this song a number of times and ended up using a demo version. Can’t say a whole lot more about this track cause nick wrote it.”
Somewhere Else
“A faster one with synthesiser.”
See The Girl
“Nick wrote this tune quite a while ago, five or six years. I remember hearing his demo and thinking it couldn’t possibly be Nick, and had to be some exotic master mind. I’m happy we’ve done it again after all this time.”
You Do To Me, Too
“A mixture of the wimpiest and heaviest song frowning clouds have done. A good excuse to do a fade-out-fade-in-again outro.”
Legalize Everything is out now via Rice Is Nice
