artist National Frost

National Frost is, for lack of a better term, a collective of musicians from the great plains of Saskatchewan. Although fully aware they are just another rock band, the group attempts to move beyond the traditional confines of two guitars, a bass, and drums by incorporating a rhodes piano, organs, a saxophone, a trumpet, field recordings, synthesized sound, a modest army of effects pedals, and virtually anything else they can get to make a noise.

Our story begins early in the summer of 2006 with an unlikely reunion of childhood friends in the sleepy little coal mining community of Estevan.The city, known more for a CBC special entitled 'Drugs, Guns, and Oil' than for any commitment to the arts, proved an unlikely setting to create a hopeful album about new beginnings.

National Frost rented a teetering old warehouse that once served as a lumberyard, filled it to the roof with wires and microphones and began tracking drums, guitars, and organs. In the weeks that followed a procession of contributors made their way through a tiny one bedroom apartment and left behind a trail of melodies, harmonies,and percussive oddities. In December of 2006 the project relocated to Regina where they rented a hundred year old character home in the heart of the city and swiftly converted into a studio space to finish tracking and mixing the album.

The songs of Lost Gospels were surgically crafted on top a body of field recordings, manipulated audio, and questionable rhythms. The album is as atmostpheric as it is angular. It's as gloomy as it is pop. It's an honest introduction to a group who has already begun work on a follow up full length. Lost Gospels begins with a gentle hush of birds and waves and concludes with a rapture of voices declaring "All is well that ends well."