have shared the first new music from their highly anticipated new studio album, , and you can watch the video for the first part of the epic title track, , below. , is a double concept album, and will be released through InsideOut Music on October 18. 'Every prog band worth their salt really should do a double album, shouldn't they?" exclaims frontman Jem Godfrey, who is joined on by longtime Frost* cohorts John Mitchell, Craig Blundell and Nathan King.
"We've always kind of had this idea of wanting to do one. So I sat down last summer and thought, well, I'm just gonna have to get my head down and go for it." The concept behind revolves around a central character Naio, a kid in a modern AI world, who discovers the voice of an old DJ on an ancient AM radio his mother had given him, which gets him off on a path of enlightenment.
"It’s actually a continuation from ," Godfrey explains of the new album. "The first track on the new album starts with the end of the last track from that album , where the static comes up and a voice says . I remember putting that in when we did as a possible little hook for the future; a character somewhere out there in land trying to be heard.
What does he want to say? Can anybody hear him? kind of sets up the world that this character lives in and Life In The Wires tells his story. “With , we made it a very specific point: we're not doing any solos, we'll do clever arrangements. And we enjoyed that discipline, but this time I thought it might be.