If you caught Eleven 76’s previous single Someone’s Always There, you’ll already know about their twin obsessions with imaginary cinema and blending retro sounds. Frosty (End Titles) would seem to exemplify both again as the closing theme for some long lost film – though of what content? Well – let’s consider the instrumentation, for this one offers a mixture of crunchy, funk drums, throbbing bass and analogue synths that could come from anywhere between 1969 and 1979 with guitar that seems to have wandered in from slightly later. I’m getting late seventies Iron Curtain vibes – some summery heat – maybe a coastal raid off the Black Sea coast of Bulgaria. In which case Frosty would have to be an ironic title…unless it’s a reference to the reception given to our agents when they emerged from below the waterline of course. If you’re feeling this one and the last one, the good news is that album A Day Of Unrest follows next month.
(Out now on Légère Recordings)
