Somewhere in between rocking out for sake of art and making art in the name of rock, drummer Adreon Henry, guitarist/bassist Brendan Reilly, and keyboardist Jason Schleter, who all also sing, have crafted a synth-laden, beat-heavy sound with angular guitar hooks that is nigh to impossible to pin down as it crosses genres seamlessly. There is an element of danger to the music as well, something just a little frightening as they sing lyrics like “I can see the sharks circling over and over. You sharpen the knives and the words to say that I’m coming home with somone that doesn’t have your name” (“I’ll Lose Your Balance”). After all, this is a band that purportedly watched a horror movie every day for a month before recording their most recent full-length, Body/End/Basement. It goes without saying that some of the recording techniques on Body/End/Basement, such as immersing one’s head in a bucket full of water while a microphone dangles above or de-tuning a guitar while its being playing, are a little unusual, but they help give the band its exquisite, incomparable sound. Simply put, Single Frame are music’s John Nash: Schizophrenic, endearing, scary at times, and, dare I say, even a little bit genius.
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