Frozen Inertia are a growing presence in the US, and they’ve also hit the airwaves here in the UK having been played in BBC 6 Music.

By Graeme Smith

An American indie experimental rock band rooted in San Francisco, California and Akron, Ohio, Frozen Inertia consists of Timothy Graves and Brad Palmer. They’ve just come to our attention through their new album, Reflectivity.

The album opens with the bluesy and sultry It’s Enrico Pallazzo!! We get the sense of the band’s experimentation straight away as they combine the traditional and the cutting edge. There are traces of Old Hollywood swirled among a dark undercurrent. Just as you get the measure of it, it builds to a big Britpop finish. It’s an intriguing start.

Throughout, the album blends the genres of jazz, blues, electronic and classical into their own brand of rock. Red Sky at Noon is jazzy and rumbling giving us traces of Spaghetti Western. No One Is Driving This Car graces us with electronic layers. Dogs in Space is beautifully cosmic and surreal.

The Northern Lights was mastered here in the UK by Oli Morgan at Abbey Road Studios and provides a ten-minute epic at the heart of the album. It takes its time to unfold, gradually introducing nuanced layers before arriving at a whimsical middle and a psych rock crescendo.

If you read this blog often, you’ll know I love an act that’s willing to take music into different and unfamiliar territory. Frozen Inertia do that in abundance, transporting us to an alternative world that peeks from behind the veil as we get lost in their sound. Their genre-bending new album is a must listen.

Reflectivity features Tim Lefebrvre (who also played on David Bowie’s Blackstar), Dennis DeMille (who was a semi-finalist on Britain’s Got Talent), the Oscar-nominated Christopher Weeks, Lucas Sales, Jenny Joy, Nastassia Moore, and Tracey McCullough. It’s out now and you can give it a listen below.