
Max Grody returns with his most accomplished album to date… Ice cold squeaks settle down like forming ice crystals while snowflakes form a magical landscape. An engulfing set of string arrangements sets the listener up for an emotional, neo-classical experience, heavenly focussed on violin work. These recordings feel deeply personal, nostalgic and melancholic.
It can be said that the amphibious composer Max Grody, whose Frog Fellowship sleepily graced ears and eyes last year with their Slumbering Sounds of the Frog Fellowship, is brilliant–a waterlogged Schumann or, at times, a web-footed Richter–but the synthesizer community was not ready for such deep lore and charming presentation. Now, Grody\’s creative spirit can be fully experienced with the impending Lullaby of the Crystal Eyed Squeaker.
Featuring rich orchestration, chilling ambiance, and string instruments masterfully played by Grody himself, Lullaby of the Crystal Eyed Squeaker tells a story of loss: a boy, Froggy, finds himself in an imaginary, crystalline world, and the world is left without his presence.
Where did Froggy go? the missing boy\’s parents cried, and through their lamentations did Grody find this somber, icy sound. Frog Concert\’s newfound and much more mournful style… more
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released January 31, 2024
ClientPhantom LureServicesMasteringYear2024