Recommended tracks: “Creep,” “Afterlife,” “Light Leak”
Artists you may like: Thaiboy Digital, MGNA Crrrta, Tommy Fleece
Penned in the mere 24 hours after the duo fled to Tokyo from a stalker in New York, Tweaker Poem continues the success of Frost Children’s (siblings Lulu Prost and Angel Prost) breakout album SISTER that has made #prodbyfrost one of the most coveted labels in contemporary electropop.
Inspired by and perhaps written from the perspective of their pathological obsessor, the EP beautifies without glamorising parasociality as covert loneliness, self-spite, and oblivious projection. This thin line from pure admiration to psychotic fixation almost mirrors the signature Frost Children soundscape set somewhere between boppable dance pop and experimental electronics. It seamlessly blends melodic rap, bulletproof club classics’ synths, 2010s EDM drops, and emo pop songwriting into one bigger distortion where each genre reaches its extremes.
The pre-released single “Satellites” is the prime example of such organised chaos. The track kicks off Tweaker Poem with a more aggressive tone with straight-up hardstyle beats as it confronts the weird stalker, the tweaker in question: “If only I could kill you, I could show you what death is / But death to an illusion only shatters the message / I guess that you and I, we live together in wreckage / I love you and I hate you and you know that’s the leverage.” Each verse literally reads like a poetic stanza, which shows Lulu and Angel’s conceptual prowess that sets their projects apart within the saturated post-Brat space of hyperpop and EDM resurgence.
“Creep” turns the obsessive gaze outward. The catchiest track on the EP, its vocal layering almost doubles the hook as the stalker begs and confesses to their idol (“Let my love in, I’m your creep / Lie to me girl, make me bleed”) while silently validating their own insanity (“Is it a fantasy if it comes true? / Don’t be so cruel, just walk away now”).
“Afterlife” and “Gutted” follow this same kind of Porter Robinson-esque synth structure, with the former even sampling and expanding the lyrics of Frost Children’s very own “Falling” (“Tell me the way to live, I’m falling apart”).
The encore “Faster” and my personal favorite “Light Leak” slightly move away from the thematic concept of tweaker poetry to deliver some good ol’ autotunes and feral trance drops. These sleazy and glossy, ultrasonic and ultra-processed bangers, to me, are peak Frost Children where the bass hits so hard you wouldn’t realise how much the songwriting does too until it’s 3am and you’re alone in your room.
Tweaker Poem is out everywhere now.
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