FRENZEE
(Melbourne, AUSTRALIA – Crete, GREECE // Poison City Records)
Apollonia, Nikos and Adonis, schooled and skilled in the ways of the old, these siblings share a kinetic bond that is erupting in real time and their band is called Frenzee.
They are Occam’s Razor, hair trigger tight, pulverizingly mean and lean. Born in Melbourne, raised and based on Crete, Frenzee embody the antipodean riffing of AC/DC, The Hard Ons and The Angels but with a heavy dose of their childhood loves Bikini Kill, Motorhead, The Prodigy and Rage Against The Machine. Frenzee aren’t the sum of some list of influences however. They don’t sound like anyone on earth. No other band has the ties to a discipline and skillset like these siblings and yet it does not stifle the dynamic intensity of the band. It just makes Frenzee insanely consistent. Relentless even.
After an endless three month tour of Australia earlier this year, Frenzee moved into the Oz subconscious rent free. Straight after that, they jumped on tour supporting 1000MODS across Europe for a month, creating an eruption of energy at every packed venue they played. October, Melbourne label Poison City Records and Greek label Ouga Booga released their debut long player What’s Wrong With Me.
From raging opener 100 Degrees to the harmonic death of What’s Wrong With Me, the collective synapses of the siblings are firing, bonded by blood.
The weight is immense. Apollonia paces in the sonic cell between the wall of Adonis’ guitar and the battery of Nikos rhythmical onslaught. It’s synchronicity and devoid of artifice. Just big raw power. No, not power. Something more honed and refined and terrifying. Pressure. So much pressure. The maximum pressure any one person can put on a string, a snare, a room, a community or a system. Welcome to the pressure age.
Tom Lyngcoln
(Nation Blue/ Harmony)