This band features prominently in the A’s of our collection. They are a totally idiosyncratic take on punk; staccato noise punctuated with dystopian lyrics about the deleterious effects of technology on our society. A Frames aren’t the band we want for these times, yet they became the band that we need.
Acquisition details: bought pre-marriage (but while together!), circa 2008 at Academy Records in Greenpoint, Brooklyn. 2007 re-release from French Label Born Bad Records, white vinyl.
Bonus memoir detail, we caught A Frames’ last NYC show in 2009 at the Cake Shop on the Lower East Side (RIP). They went on late (apparently a Cake Shop requirement) but were incendiary.
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