Lily Frost

Vocalist/songwriter Lily Frost pulls on affects of ’60s pop, style, and art to generate her engaging make of not-easily pigeonholed music. Painfully timid, the introverted Frost spent years expressing herself in her journal entries, gradually placing these to music and placing years of traditional piano teaching to make use of. By 1989, she was learning jazz and French at Concordia College or university in Montreal and was carrying out ’20s addresses in an area group known as the Sheiks. To flee through the Montreal winters, Frost got a job performing on a dispatch in Cairo, Egypt, carrying out specifications and torch tracks seven nights weekly, for half a year, before time for Vancouver in 1992 to front side the Colorifics, who embraced ’50s-design swing and captivated a pursuing along the Western Coastline. The group obtained at university radio if they released among Frost’s compositions, “SODA,” but Frost, attempting to pursue more sophisticated noises, released the single effort Lunamarium, that was re-packaged and re-released when she authorized with Nettwerk. Promoting the record, that was well-received by critics, Frost got the opportunity to talk about the stage with works that included Coldplay, Cowboy Junkies, as well as the Dandy Warhols. She also continuing to function concurrently using the band Mimosa.