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It ’ s hard to believe that they’re out there, deeply tucked into the night sky. But there they are—Angels, whom the now famous James Webb Space Telescope cannot identify, no matter how advanced the infrared technology. Gazing up in wonder, Angel Prost—a real angel—rests her feet on a bed of grass alongside her New York-based kin, Lulu, discovering herself through meditation, music, or simply looking to the beyond for an escape. “I guess it’s not really a physical place, but it’s sort of like this empty house-cleaning of the mind,” Angel says of occasionally stopping to stare upward, “which is really important, I think—to approach everything with an understanding of emptiness and nothingness. I mean, you can’t see any stars in New York in the sky, but I was thinking about that, and it’s crazy and really beautiful.”

Together, Angel and Lulu are Frost Children, whose musicality eludes any billion dollar telescope, even on the hot and sticky summer pavement of NYC. The duo’s strategically hectic sonics are fueled by mirages of simulations and stimulations to send your heart aflutter, to catapult your mind someplace you’ve never been before or never knew existed. This is overwhelmingly evident on Frost Children’s hypersonic junior album, SPIRAL. Unveiled earlier this year, the synthetically sweet 14-track project releases you into glitchy soundscapes with relentless energy and vulnerably sincere lyrics. Following previous releases Elixir Rejection and Aviation Creates Adventurous Beginnings, SPIRAL transcends into a place where anything goes and nothing stays—a complete surrendering to the artists’ intuition.

Frost Children journeyed to a small town in upstate New York to produce SPIRAL. Lulu shares, “We were like, ‘Let’s just knock out a bunch of tracks, no distractions, and enjoy nature in the meantime.’” Angel chimes in, “That was an essential element of the album, even if it wasn’t completely produced there. I remember, for a while, I had this narrative of a loose concept album in mind, like escaping a cult. That was the arc that I wanted the album to take. The energy was like, you realize you’ve woken up in a cult and now you’re trying to escape.”

This ambition is heavily felt when listening to songs like “WORSHIP U,” which doubles as a kind of devoted breakup song to your cult leader, or “LAKE OF LOVE”—envisioning the beauty of what could be, in the smothering embrace of said cult, that concludes the album. And not to spoil the outcome, but Angel and Lulu do find escape, or at least they found a home in it.

Simultaneously working on two new projects, Frost Children are exactly where they need to be. “Before, I was really concerned about hyper-intention with each thing,” Lulu shares on embracing this new, multi-layered approach. “Each draft had to be for a specific thing and had to do this, or else I’m not doing it right.” He continues, “I’m doing the same thing I was doing before, but I’m way happier and having way more fun, and probably creating a lot more unique things that people might resonate with.”

For Frost Children, music is less about following streams and more about being led by intuition—trusting the instances that feel like fate. While these moments may be few and far between, the duo wouldn’t argue there’s not something metaphysical about it, something angelically suspended between earth and sky that’s guiding the process. “It’s just a gut feeling,” Angel concludes, “of like, ‘This feels like the thing that I was geared to be doing.’ When we got to start performing together, and we started living together, it was another moment that felt correct.”

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Photographed by Emilio Tamez
Styled by Julian Ribeiro
Flaunt Film: Marlena Lerner
Written by Bree Castillo