Music Style The song is the main thing. Melodic, warm, quirky, dark, touches of latin percussion, quiet, loud, the odd small 80s keyboard noise - the main ambition is for each song to be an animal in its own right.

Musical Influences Loads... Songwriters such Kurt Cobain, Serge Gainsbourg, Arthur Lee, John Lennon, Antonio Carlos Jobim, Paul Simon, Henry Mancini, Chico Buarque, Neil Young, Elliott Smith... Bands and artists like Beck, Grandaddy, Mestre Ambrosio, Phoenix, Queens Of The Stone Age, Daft Punk, The Flaming Lips, The Velvet Underground, The Stone Roses, Air, Brazilian percussion ensemble Olodum...

Similar Artists If you love any of the artists mentioned above you might love Frock!

Artist History Fredrik Kinbom moved from Stockholm to Brighton with his guitar and a batch of self-written songs. He recorded his critically acclaimed debut album "Frozen Jungle Entertainment" in several studios in such far-flung places such as Brazil and Sweden, but it was at the Metway Studios in Brighton that Fredrik met and recorded with Toby May and Steve Baker who along with Rich Smith came onboard and made Frock a four-piece band. Since Frock have been playing as a band they have regularly headlined gigs, played the Brighton Rocks event and BBC Radio 1's "One Live in Brighton", done a radio session for Totally Radio and demoed some new material for EMI Publishing. Frock are working on lots of exciting new material and Fredrik is experimenting with the new musical possibilities of Frock being a full band. Songs such as live favourite "Beautiful Death" are strong indications of the new direction that the band are going in. After such a positive year Frock are aiming to capitalise on the interest they have had so far and take it to the next level in 2004.

Group Members Frock are: Fredrik Kinbom - vocals, acoustic and electric guitars; Steve Baker - electric guitars, assorted small keyboards, backing vocals, percussion; Rich Smith - bass, 303; Toby May - drums and sound effects.

Instruments Guitars, drums and various Brazilian percussion instruments, funny little keyboards, double basses and bass guitars, a trumpet, drums, flutes, samples recorded on several continents, breaking a laminated wooden bowl from a £1-shop, strings...

Albums Frozen Jungle Entertainment (2002)

Press Reviews "Skirting round the edges of straight-forward accessible pop, Frock might be described as quirky, with their spaced-out rustic charm and subversion of traditional pop values. Part Super Furry Animals part ‘Sergeant Pepper’ era Beatles, part, well, Frock actually." BBC Radio 1 – One Music

Additional Info I Like Records - catalogue number ILIKE001CD

Location Brighton, East Sussex - United Kingdom

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