PREMIERE | Get Lost Cassidy Frost, "(Till the Flood of my Blood Makes a Moat for your Boat to) Float On"
Introducing the Casiotone cool of Get Lost Cassidy Frost; press photo courtesy of the artist.
2024 is about being your most authentic self. Even as these turbulent 2020s prove to be challenging in countless ways, one of the best ways to tackle the chop of the tides is to live sincerely. Leaning into the spirit of personal truths, the infinite waves of adversity can be confronted with visions that survey the seas and landscapes with a newfound sense of clarity. While no one has all the answers to understand the unrest of the world or even the entire scope of the self; we can do the work to find ourselves, find one another, find our places, find that spark of inspiration, find better ways of life, living, existing to just….being.
The personal and creative process of connection/reconnection can be found in the self-styled sounds and sentiments of Get Lost Cassidy Frost as heard on the debut of "(Till the Flood of my Blood Makes a Moat for your Boat to) Float On". Written and recorded by San Francisco-based multi-hyphenate Cassidy Frost (formerly of Portland act bed.), the artist offers a candid and inner view of self-realization, discovery, a journey of queerness and more told through the stripped down recording craft of DIY minimalism. The track’s home brewed comfort and warmth enraptures like an electric heated safety blanket that canopies a bedroom fort sanctuary of one’s own.
"(Till the Flood of my Blood Makes a Moat for your Boat to) Float On" blends the elements of honey and vinegar to detail connections, quandaries and confusions. Cassidy penned the song after their own binary dawning, delivering a succinct and saccharine doused journey through re-evaluating relationships and exploring the constructs of cis gender identities, affinities, et al. Get Lost Cassidy Frost mulls about the things we do to appeal to others, how we appeal to ourselves, questioning desire, meeting the needs, wants and expectations of others and finally meeting our own needs, wants and expectations. The delivery is endearing yet lionhearted, a drum machine that skips along with the anecdotal chord strums of intimacy, infatuation and the estuaries of the world that intersect the humble tributaries that connect us all. “Float On” is about the folks we lean and love on and how we learn to love and lean on ourselves.
Cassidy Frost provided some privy reflections on the personal and creative praxis at work:
This was the first song I wrote after coming out as nonbinary as a way of dealing with feelings I had around my relationship with men. I wanted to feel the comfort of a familiar connection while being nauseated by the idea of who I had to become in order to get it.
It’s the first song I ever recorded and produced on my own. For decades I always felt overwhelmed at the idea of learning to record so I never did. It was such a slog for me digging into recording software that Roisin Isner [of Strange Men] had to come over to my house many nights and basically babysit me to get me to finish it. I love how my new recordings sound and I regret not having gotten to it sooner.
"(Till the Flood of my Blood Makes a Moat for your Boat to) Float On" is available now from Get Lost Cassidy Frost.