The Frozen North from Poland: Find Us
In 50 words or less, tell us what you sound like?
We’re an instrumental post-rock band that might fit somewhere in between Mogwai and Godspeed in your record collection. Delicate effect-laden guitars become noisy walls of sound and there are these beautiful, baroque-influenced violin melodies on top. It’s pretty lovely, actually.
In 100 words or less, tell us why we should listen to you?
As musicians, The Frozen North come from different musical backgrounds. Filip and Tomek (Bass and drums respectively) also play in metal bands; Kasia and Aga (violins) are both classically trained; Dave (guitar) has played in both metal and folk bands in the past and me (guitar), well I’m the post-rock, shoegaze and indie “kid” in the band and I love my guitar effects. To that extent, the band is a lovely melting-pot of all of those things and it comes together in the most natural way I’ve ever experienced. That, and we’re pretty, bloody, good!
If you had to pick one of your tracks for our readers to listen to, which would it be?
Origin
Give us 3 bands you’d recommend we listen to?
I'll give you a few of my favourite Polish indie bands to listen to. Eric Shoves Them In His Pockets (Thin Man Records), Hanimal (Verge Sound Records), The Sunlit Earth (Nasiono Records)
What inspires your music?
For each member of the band, that answer could be very different but I’d say at the most basic level, we inspire each other. It’s a great feeling when we’re all together in our rehearsal room, bouncing ideas off of each other. Things come together very quickly. For me though, my environment inspires me a lot, and my friends and family, but the biggest inspiration I take for the Frozen North is experimenting with sound - taking a signal and passing it through 16 or 17 guitar pedals and seeing what comes out the end of it is an absolute joy.
What we say:
Epic, violin-led post rock in the fashion of Godspeed or Rumour Cubes.
