Fresh Snow announces sophomore album + share new track

Toronto’s Fresh Snow announces their sophomore album ‘Won,’ which will be out on September 11 via Hand Drawn Dracula on limited edition white vinyl and digital (pre-order the vinyl here) and on limited edition cassette via Reel Cod Records. Take a listen to the album’s first single Proper Burial with vocals from DIANA’s Carmen Elle via Soundcloud below. 

Primarily an instrumental band with a core line-up augmented by guest horn and string players (including Trent Severn’s Laura C. Bates), Fresh Snow is not easy to pigeonhole. ‘Won’ will explore different sides of the band’s aesthetic, and features vocal appearances by DIANA’s Carmen Elle, and FUCKED UP’s Damian Abraham. Just as they are prone to wearing masks onstage, so they are intent on keeping listeners guessing what they’ll do next. In an age where everything is instant and people have nothing to hide, Fresh Snow believes that a little mystery makes everything more enjoyable.

Beauty lies in the extremes. Dissonant and melodic, robotic and danceable, violent and beautiful: Fresh Snow is all these things. And the best is yet to come.

 

Track listing:
1. King Twink Rides Again
2. Proper Burial (ft. Carmen Elle)
3. Blood In The Sun
4. Delft
5. Don’t Fuck A Gift Horse In The Mouth (ft. Damian Abraham)

 

 

 

Watch the album teaser video via YouTube below.

Fresh Snow’s new directions in instrumental music are clearly something that the critics agree on. “They can shift from Godspeed to Kraftwerk to Mogwai within the same song, and then segue to eminently danceable synth-led disco a few minutes later with some pleasantly woozy violin lines offering a decidedly human counterpoint to the mechanical rhythms driving things” wrote Chromewaves blogger Frank Yang.

Born in a dive bar on Toronto’s Bloor Street in 2010, four friends gathered to make improvisational music based on their love of drones, noise and-less obviously-strongly melodic pop music. Since their first show in 2011, Andy Lloyd (bass, keys) , Brad Davis (guitars, keys), Jon Maki (drums), and Tim Condon (keys, etc) have released a split 7″ single with METZ, a full-length album, ‘I’ (Reel Cod Records), and a cover of Frances Farmer Will Have Her Revenge on Seattle, featuring vocals by Julie Fader on the Nirvana tribute album, ‘Milkin’ It’ (Hand Drawn Dracula).

For more information on Fresh Snow, visit freshsnowmusic.com.