Pink Frost - New Minds (2022) Hi-Res

Taste Nation LLC founder and owner Matthew Thomas is well aware of my penchant for shoegazing at this point in time and had recommended I check out this new Pink Frost album. He described them as a shoegaze band that was going for a heavier sound on their latest album. At this point in time, I should be well aware of his penchant for understatement. This album sounds like the ungodly love child of Smashing Pumpkins and Uncle Acid And The Deadbeats, conceived at a Cure concert during the Disintegration era. This certainly ain’t a bad thing – let’s recall that The Smashing Pumpkins were my favorite band in high school, and Disintegration is a top ten all-time album for me. The heavier tracks are blown out with some seriously fat fuzz-tones straight from the Siamese Dream era, and they have the melodies to match. However, the overall vibe is dark, evil, and ethereal, which may sound like an unlikely combination, but they somehow pull it off. It’s like listening to the soundtrack from your most pleasant nightmares ever.