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Cody Frost's debut EP 'IT'S NOT REAL' put her on the map, her angsty, aggressive dark pop winning comparisons with everyone from Ashnikko to Bring Me The Horizon and My Chemical Romance. An international array of tastemaker attention included continuing support from Jack Saunders at Radio 1, giving Cody the platform to take her provocative,personality-fuelled pop to a broad audience.

When her focus turned to working on a bigger body of work, Cody's plan was simple. "My first EP was just demonstrating what I can do," she says. "But my new music is a lot more fun. It's…

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SHORT BIO

Cody Frost's debut EP 'IT'S NOT REAL' put her on the map, her angsty, aggressive dark pop winning comparisons with everyone from Ashnikko to Bring Me The Horizon and My Chemical Romance. An international array of tastemaker attention included continuing support from Jack Saunders at Radio 1, giving Cody the platform to take her provocative,personality-fuelled pop to a broad audience.

When her focus turned to working on a bigger body of work, Cody's plan was simple. "My first EP was just demonstrating what I can do," she says. "But my new music is a lot more fun. It's even more rambunctious and goes harder."

One play of her recent single 'Berlin' shows that aim was accomplished. Inspired by the hyperpop scene and especially100 gecs, It's full-on maximalist madness: thumping, trap-inspired beats, sinister industrial-tinged synths, and Cody's voice bathed in autotune. It's a song that emerged in two different time periods. The idea first came when she was in a cafe in Berlin during a trip to see Enter Shikari, and it was later finished during the peak of the pandemic. Cody has most recently released her mixtape TEETH. It's the sound of Cody honing in on who she is as an artist by embracing a collision course of sonic juxtapositions and articulating her experiences at this stage of her life.

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Cody Frost's debut EP 'IT'S NOT REAL' put her on the map, her angsty, aggressive dark pop winning comparisons with everyone from Ashnikko to Bring Me The Horizon and My Chemical Romance. An international array of tastemaker attention included continuing support from Jack Saunders at Radio 1, giving Cody the platform to take her provocative, personality-fuelled pop to a broad audience.

When her focus turned to working on a bigger body of work, Cody's plan was simple. "My first EP was just demonstrating what I can do," she says. "But my new music is a lot more fun. It's even more rambunctious and goes harder."

One play of her recent single 'Berlin' shows that aim was accomplished. Inspired by the hyperpop scene and especially 100 gecs, it's full-on maximalist madness: thumping, trap-inspired beats, sinister industrial-tinged synths, and Cody's voice bathed in autotune. It's a song that emerged in two different time periods. The idea first came when she was in a cafe in Berlin during a trip to see Enter Shikari, and it was later finished during the peak of the pandemic.

"A lot of the lyrics are just intensely angry," she recalls. "In Berlin, I had some problems with my throat, so I wasn't allowed to smoke or drink, which are habits that a lot of people struggle with. And during the pandemic the lyric, 'How many can you underpay?' was expressing my anger at the government underpaying NHS workers."

'Berlin' provides a compelling introduction into what to expect from Cody's mixtape 'TEETH,' which is about to be unleashed. It's the sound of Cody honing in on who she is as an artist by embracing a collision course of sonic juxtapositions and articulating her experiences at this stage of her life.

Those juxtapositions are particularly striking in another new song 'DWYSSWM.' Opening with Cody's brightest and most pop-focused sound so far, it suddenly erupts into a visceral electro-punk attack. It's a song which sees Cody and her co-producer/co-writer Dan Weller (co-founder of cult Brit metal experimentalists SiKtH) return to their roots. "We never really had the opportunity to explore his heavier side before, and that's something I've always been in awe of him for."

At the other extreme, 'Mea Culpa' balances its ethereal gothic beauty with a lurching sense of foreboding. It's a soundscape for a song which sees Cody explore a maelstrom of emotional upheaval: late night feelings of guilt and recrimination heightened by panic and paranoia. While ideally suited to soundtrack a horror, the song's fears are very much rooted in reality. "'Mea Culpa' is about lucid dreaming," explains Cody. "When I used to live above a pub, I ended up suffering with bouts of lucid dreams, nightmares and insomnia due to repeated burglaries."

While 'Mea Culpa' is founded on scares, 'Redundant' takes a more sardonic swipe at the kind of character that you'll encounter across the length-and-breadth of the country. "Anybody who listens to it will understand what kind of guy that is," laughs Cody, "the douchebag that likes to show off a lot. I just thought of that kind of guy during lockdown. Where is he now and what's happening? The main point of the song is, what's the point in trying so hard? Although it's not just me roasting them, I'm also saying, give it up and join the fun!"

Elsewhere, 'TEETH' compares Cody's early expectations for how her life would be with the reality now that she's in her early twenties. "I genuinely thought I'd be famous by now. I wanted to be Gerard Way from My Chemical Romance. That's who I thought I was going to be by the time I was 18-years-old."

Ok, so maybe Cody isn't on Gerard Way levels of fame yet, but she has come a remarkably long way. Originally from Burnley, she started busking in Manchester and sharing covers of songs from Frank Ocean, Nirvana and Slipknot on YouTube. Her career didn't begin to take shape until she was diagnosed with ADHD, which meant she could finally manage the condition and find a new focus.

Her struggles with ADHD resurfaced during lockdown due to the amount of time she spent alone. It ultimately resulted in 'Chaos,' a song that her most hardcore fans may already recognise. "With my ADHD I often struggle with everything that's going on around me. I feel like I'm being swallowed, and the only way I can describe it is chaotic. The song had to sound messy and weird and unexpected, because that's how I feel when I'm in that state. I wanted to make light of something I find stressful."

Also an accomplished tattooist and artist, one of the keys to Cody keeping herself sane is to let her creative projects emerge naturally. Forcing herself to sit down and write a song is futile, but she'll drop everything the moment inspiration strikes. It's a yin-and-yang balancing act. "Artwork is my more introverted side and music is my extraverted side. I'm very much an introverted extravert, I can never decide if I want to be seen, or if I just want to be doing quiet stuff."

Now planning many more live shows in support of 'TEETH,' Cody is eager to connect with a following that's so far been virtual. "I want to do everything now," she concludes with a broad, beaming smile. "I've done a couple of gigs and it's made me so hungry for more. I'm excited to meet people who have shared similar experiences to me, and who relate to my music."

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