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Froth

Froth

Los Angeles band that began as a joke and became a dream pop shapeshifter across four albums.

APPLE MUSIC

Lost My Mind

Froth

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MOODS · dreamy · psychedelic · hazy · reverb-soaked · motorik · shoegazey · lo-fi · wistful · driving · outsider pop

BIOGRAPHY

Froth started in El Segundo, California as a fake project dreamed up by Joo-Joo Ashworth and Jeff Fribourg, who planned to send out publicity photos without ever performing. In 2012, when an act dropped out of a small festival Fribourg organized, Froth played its first real set, Ashworth on guitar and vocals, Fribourg on Omnichord. With Jeremy Katz on bass and Cameron Allen on drums, the band released debut album Patterns on Lolipop Records in 2013, touring the US, Europe and the UK. After lineup changes brought in Cole Devine and later Nick Ventura on guitar, Froth released Bleak in 2015 on Burger Records, then Outside (Briefly) in 2017 on Wichita Recordings, produced by Thomas Dolas and marked by motorik rhythms and gauzy guitarwork that led to support slots with Interpol and Ride. Fourth album Duress arrived in 2019, built on drum machines and lo-fi synths.

WHY THEY'RE COOL

Froth's catalog traces a real evolution rather than a fixed sound, moving from reverb-soaked garage rock on Patterns and Bleak into the motorik, shoegaze-leaning Outside (Briefly), an album strong enough to land the band tours opening for Interpol and Ride. Duress then stripped things back to a home-recorded, drum machine driven minimalism. Few LA bands have shifted this visibly across four records while keeping the same psychedelic pop core.

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