Frausdots Prep Debut Album for Sub Pop

Brent Rademaker has been a longtime experimental music fixture as a member of the shoegazer group Further, the British-inspired indie band The Tyde, and the neo-psychedelic outfit Beachwood Sparks. Now, after all this time, he's decided to branch out on his own as Frausdots. Sez Brent: "I was always the psychic bassist who wrote the music. If I hadn't been playing second fiddle in any band I'd ever been in, I would have made this record right out of high school." Now he's first fiddle, and Frausdots' debut, Couture, Couture, Couture, is slated for release via Sub Pop on September 28th.

Although Frausdots is a full band, Michelle Loiselle is Rademaker's main collaborator for the album, and in addition to playing keyboards, she graces the tracks with her sexy, sultry voice, which wouldn't be out of place singing backing vocals on a Guns N' Roses ballad. In totally unrelated news, Loiselle previously sang backing vocals for Guns N' Roses. Ooh, I knew I'd be able to work that in somehow.

Couture, Couture, Couture also features contributions from Mia Doi Todd, as well as members of The Cure, Brian Jonestown Massacre, Rooney and The Tyde. "From dark places comes dark music and that's where we've been," Rademaker says. His own description of the band's sound includes such phrases as the "eternal search for warmth" and our personal favorite, "exploring the deepest darkness of the forest and emerging higher than the sun and making contact beyond the sun." Only, like... music, you know? Tracklist:

01 Dead Wrong
02 Fashion Death Trends
03 The Extremists
04 Soft Light
05 A Go-See
06 Broken Arrows
07 Current Bedding
08 The Man Who Dreaded Sundown
09 Contact
10 Tomorrow's Sky