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Frank (just Frank) - The Brutal Wave (2010)

Genre: Post-Punk, Cold Wave, Synthpop | Label: Wierd Records | 11 tracks | UK-France

What happens when a New Jersey native (Chris aka Anthem) and a Frenchman (Kirti aka KD) meet at an international school in the French Riviera and bond over their mutual love of metal? It’s a foundation that eventually formed the band Frank (Just Frank). The release of their debut LP The Brutal Wave showcases the band’s mixture of the obscure and happy. Case in point, the LP cover art is a spunky pink image of a woman who is getting her head shaved by the French resistance.

Sure we’ve been seeing many bands to the post punk revival thing lately but what sets Frank (Just Frank) apart is their dichotomy between light and dark. Combining heavy drum machine beats, post punk guitars, and melancholic vocals with vintage, at times happy, sounding synths The Brutal Wave is an album that won’t exclusively appeal to the cold wave kids and goths. I can see a wide range audience digging “Beneath” and the French language “The Closet Song”. While coining the phrase brutal wave to describe their music (mixing their brutal metal roots with cold cave influences), Frank (Just Frank) are heavily rooted in that post punk sound, which they pull off extremely well.

For their debut LP The Brutal Wave is not going to blow anyone’s minds away as they don’t push the boundaries of the genre but the duo have created a great little album that gets better after each listen. It will definitely be interesting to see where Frank (Just Frank) goes from here, especially if they choose to incorporate more of their death metal roots into their brutal wave sound.

Tracklist

1. Beneath

2. Mr. Itagaki

3. Die in Bed

4. Crisis

5. Jalousie

6. Le Son du Trottoir

7. Séraphine

8. Coeur Hanté

9. The Closet Song

10. Ride of a Lifetime

11. Collapse

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