February 2025
Gaze-alicious! That’s the word that comes to mind while listening to Wicked Habits, Wasted Heart, the new album by Reno musical project, Frank Futility. And while the Reno/Lake Tahoe area is hardly known for its contribution of notable shoegaze projects, even more surprising might be the fact that this makes up the band’s debut full length recording – having released only two singles previously.
The project fronted by Gina Hoang contains seven songs wandering through a reverb heavy path of bedroom distortion, clocking in around thirty minutes. With tumultuousness bleeding through, one gets the impression when listening of songs written over late nights in emotion laden bedroom settings. With production that sometimes take the atmospheric elements and push them beyond the realm of refinement, it can be felt that this sense of straying from the finely tuned are the moments that make up the biggest strengths of the recording – where rawness and hunger seep through.
For fans of shoegaze, Frank Futility has captured longing and the rawness of internal monologue. This is a shockingly fresh take on the style of music, and captures the punk edge to the sound that tends to lack in recordings that aim for flawlessness in sound but loses the hunger in the process.
Stream Frank Futility’s new album, Wicked Habits, Wasted Heart on Bandcamp or Apple Music.
or follow the group on Instagram
Frank Futility will celebrate their record release show at the Holland Project on February 14th. More info is available here.
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