Froth

Though they began as a joke band, Froth quickly became something more tangible. After two albums that were reverb-caked and garage rock influenced, they made a leap into the world of big-screen shoegaze and dream pop with 2017's Outside (Briefly). The next step is usually for a band to go even bigger, but Froth instead turned inward, and their next album, 2019's Duress, was a fragile, lo-fi take on shoegaze. Joo Joo Ashworth and Jeff Fribourg were two friends from El Segundo, California, with a passion for music and a sense of humor, and they dreamed up Froth as a fake band,...