Frail Body announce new LP 'Artificial Bouquet,' share "Refrain" video
Illinois screamo band Frail Body have finally announced their first full-length album since 2019’s great A Brief Memoriam. It’s called Artificial Bouquet and due March 29 via Deathwish (pre-order). The album was produced, engineered, and recorded by Pete Grossmann, and mastered by Jack Shirley, and the album artwork was designed by Deathwish co-founder/Converge vocalist Jacob Bannon (see below).
The first single is “Refrain,” an intense, towering, heavy/beautiful screamo song that vocalist/guitarist Lowell Shaffer says “is about how insignificant life can feel at the very end. The juxtaposition of a rich and complex life ending in a rented bed. The echos of those elements of significance and the final moments that must be ushered along with the rest of us all, also being subjected to life’s unjust experience.” Check out the song and its video below.
Frail Body also have upcoming US, UK, and Europe tour dates that are listed below (none on the East Coast at the moment).
Tracklist
Scaffolding
Berth
Critique Programme
Devotion
Monolith
Refrain
No Resolution
Runaway
Horizon Line
Another Year Removed
A Capsule in the Sediment
Frail Body — 2024 Tour Dates
March 3 Peoria, IL @ Slicehub ^
March 4 Kansas City, MO @ Farewell ^
March 5 Tulsa, OK @ Whittier Bar ^
March 6 Oklahoma City, OK @ Sactuary ^
March 7 Denton, TX @ Rubber Gloves ^
March 8 San Antonio, TX @ B-Side ^
March 9 Houston, TX @ The End ^
March 10 Austin, TX @ Chess Club ^
March 11 Austin, TX @ Austin High Tunnels ^
March 12 Austin, TX @ The Ballroom ^
March 13 Little Rock, AR @ White Water Tavern ^
March 14 Memphis, TN @ Haven Haus ^
March 15 Nashville, TN @ drkmttr ^
March 16 Louisville, KY @ Kaiju ^
April 10 Glasgow, UK @ Garage Attic #
April 11 Leeds, UK @ Boom #
April 12 Bristol, UK @ Crofters Rights #
April 13 London, UK @ Downstairs at the Dome #
April 14 Brighton, UK @ The Hope and Ruin #
April 16 Lille, FR @ Brat Cave &
April 17 Antwerp, BE @ Antwerp Music City &
April 18 Paris, FR @ L’International &
April 20 Tilburg, NL @ Roadburn Festival
April 21 Liege, BE @ La Zone &
April 23 Frankfurt, DE @ Juha West &
April 24 La Chaux-de-Fonds, CH @ Bikini Test &
April 25 Milan, IT @ COX18 &
April 26 Modena, IT @ La Tienda &
April 27 Rome, IT @ RCCB INIT &
^ w/ Heavenly Blue
# w/ Chalk Hands
& w/ Knoll
