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Frown Pow'r - Don't Doubt It: Shout It!
Recorded in a whip, bang, flash weekend by five guys, one producer, and two dogs in a central Arkansas town with a population in double-digits, "Don't Doubt It: Shout It!" is 12 whiskey-eyed stompsongs laid out with an ultra lo-fi sound that toes the line around Black Lips, The Replacements, Uncle Tupelo, and Daniel Johnston. Joyously sloppy and belligerently optimistic, the debut by Frown Pow'r had a cult following even before its release thanks to the band's notorious live shows and keen-eared radio DJs and bloggers from Little Rock to New York City. It's a multi-instrumental, non-linear novella, each track a chapter that gets clearer with each listen. Like the South they revel in and sing about, it's hollering, dusty, and thick-headed. It's a tin-eared, drunken 2 a.m. bonfire singalong. Like the best of cult albums, it's not always pretty. Hell, sometimes it's slap ugly. But that's the appeal, dig?
"'Don't Doubt It, Shout It' by Frown Pow'r sounds like the Beatles if they came from the United States instead of England and kept playing in a little club instead of touring the world. And I mean that all in a good way. Maybe if the Beatles had followed this path they would've ended up this good."
- David Fair of HALF JAPANESE
"The Frown Pow'r debut is 'gonna surprise some folks. An epic work of southern attitude and noise. Lo-fi party music for the intellectually bent and existentially inclined. These songs will stay with you. If you don't like it, you just haven't listened to it enough."
- Dan Johnson, Arkansas musician, hard-as-nails critic
"Sounds like church...catchy and spastic."
- 607, genius rapper extraordinaire
"Their sounds fit into a mood of whiskey shots, lawn chairs, and low lighting...they can wheel out genuine keg party anthems then lay down some heavy nostalgia...[not] merely an artful group of Arkansas boys with a few good instruments: they're the real deal."
-Cadron Chronicle Blog
"So good that it's destined to toil in obscurity, waiting for people who deserve it. A 'Black Monk Time' for the Garageband generation. When your kids are working in a record store, they're gonna love this, so don't look like a dumbass to your children 20 years from now when they ask you where you were on Frown Pow'r, okay?"
-Ricky Richards
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Recorded in a whip, bang, flash weekend by five guys, one producer, and two dogs in a central Arkansas town with a population in double-digits, "Don't Doubt It: Shout It!" is 12 whiskey-eyed stompsongs laid out with an ultra lo-fi sound that toes the line around Black Lips, The Replacements, Uncle Tupelo, and Daniel Johnston. Joyously sloppy and belligerently optimistic, the debut by Frown Pow'r had a cult following even before its release thanks to the band's notorious live shows and keen-eared radio DJs and bloggers from Little Rock to New York City. It's a multi-instrumental, non-linear novella, each track a chapter that gets clearer with each listen. Like the South they revel in and sing about, it's hollering, dusty, and thick-headed. It's a tin-eared, drunken 2 a.m. bonfire singalong. Like the best of cult albums, it's not always pretty. Hell, sometimes it's slap ugly. But that's the appeal, dig?
"'Don't Doubt It, Shout It' by Frown Pow'r sounds like the Beatles if they came from the United States instead of England and kept playing in a little club instead of touring the world. And I mean that all in a good way. Maybe if the Beatles had followed this path they would've ended up this good."
- David Fair of HALF JAPANESE
"The Frown Pow'r debut is 'gonna surprise some folks. An epic work of southern attitude and noise. Lo-fi party music for the intellectually bent and existentially inclined. These songs will stay with you. If you don't like it, you just haven't listened to it enough."
- Dan Johnson, Arkansas musician, hard-as-nails critic
"Sounds like church...catchy and spastic."
- 607, genius rapper extraordinaire
"Their sounds fit into a mood of whiskey shots, lawn chairs, and low lighting...they can wheel out genuine keg party anthems then lay down some heavy nostalgia...[not] merely an artful group of Arkansas boys with a few good instruments: they're the real deal."
-Cadron Chronicle Blog
"So good that it's destined to toil in obscurity, waiting for people who deserve it. A 'Black Monk Time' for the Garageband generation. When your kids are working in a record store, they're gonna love this, so don't look like a dumbass to your children 20 years from now when they ask you where you were on Frown Pow'r, okay?"
-Ricky Richards
Buy @
amazon.com
iTunes Store