Frankie Flowers is an emerging Waterloo, ON-based artist. Originally desiring to explore electronic music, with the goal of being a DJ, the Canadian artist took a course on music production and learned how to spin on vinyl. But after an abysmal breakup and countless shifts working coat check at a Toronto area concert venue, Flowers’ musical direction changed: She found herself writing and creating alt rock/indie rock music as a release, rooted in the urge to use her words and voice as her main instrument.
The Waterloo-based artist’s self-produced work is influenced by her love of The Cure and Joy Division and sees her meshes elements of dark wave and post-punk.
Her latest single, the breakneck “I JUST WANT TO DISAPPEAR” is built around a looping and jangling guitar line, a relentless motorik-like rhythm section, enormous, rousingly anthemic hooks and choruses paired with the Canadian artist’s ironically detached yet yearning delivery. While sonically, bearing a resemblance to The Cure, The Smiths and Joy Division, the song is rooted in lived-in experience. The song’s narrator expresses the endlessly negative thoughts of someone caught in a dark, extremely negative headspace. And as the Canadian artist explains “It’s about chasing toxicity, repeating vicious cycles and how your mind can basically eat you alive, if you choose to let it.”
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