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“Originally a short-sighted excuse to get get drunk with friends for a couple of weeks, Frown Pow'r got underway in a borrowed 80-year old garage in the small, lakeside town of Arkadelphia, Arkansas. Since then, Frown Pow'r has moved 60 miles up the road, gigged--for better or worse--at every opportunity, and somehow, despite their best attempts, managed to stay relatively popular in their home state thanks to their signature, high-energy live shows which inevitably end with half the crowd on stage, throwing beer, and breaking gear. Defiantly sloppy, belligerently optimistic, and blatantly self depreciating, Frown Pow'r is currently too A.D.D. and giggly *not* to end their biography with the word 'pootfuck.'"
"When FROWN POW'R is activated, it kicks out the jams in a ragged, scratchy blast of roots rock crossed with garage and country. The four piece - Flash Gurdon, Uncle Marshall, Stankerbell, and Doc Possum - pick, plow, and push their way through songs that burn like a bottle rocket fuse before exploding."
- SYNC Magazine
"...Weirdo lo-fi garage sounds..."
- Arkansas Times
"Sounds like church...catchy and spastic."
- 607, genius rapper extraordinaire
"...Well hell, that sounds like good music, at least it ain't that headbanging shit."
- Arkadelphia Police Officer responding to a FROWN POW'R induced noise complaint
"The Frown Pow'r debut is 'gonna surprise some folks. An epic work of southern attitude and noise. Delta blues and gospel crash into a no-wave pop, rock n' punk juggernaut. Lo-fi party music for the intellectually bent and existentially inclined. These songs will stay with you. If you don't like it, you just haven't listened to it enough."
- Dan Johnson
"The songs on "Don't Doubt It, Shout It!" are a bouncing ensemble of self-coined "Arkanstomp"; some songs induce thoughts of lover's past and future and some are songs that guide you through the swamp or the hoedown throwdown the songs are really meant for. Doc Possum's a.k.a. Blake Phillips' drum kicks are like haymakers to the ear drums. The voices blend together as though Animal Collective's Panda Bear Noah Lennox is there reciting the lyrics, although it's Flash Gurdon a.k.a. JT Tarpley provindin' the screechin' and hoopin' and hollerin'. They come together like surf band tunes only instead of driving around in their daddy's T-bird playing Fender Jaguars they've got a horse and wagon and an electronic mandolin strung by Stankerbell a.k.a. John Babb. Along with the keyboards (again, Tarpley) and guitars (Uncle Marshall a.k.a. Marshall Dunn on guitar and Mean Paul a.k.a. Paul Fennig on bass/lapsteel) slamming through their chords, the sound of the band is really a wagon rolling down a washboard trail full of drunken gypsies. It's not harmony but more of a Southern choral drawl. The most important ingredient to the recipe of Frown Pow'r is the thick slab of lo-fi dissidence. The crisp crackles and the tiny imperfections through the record remind the listener this isn't a band that's going to lose their roots or their heads if a steam roll of corporatism overtakes music anytime soon, which in all reality including so-called indie rock bands, it has. They don't want to hit the bigtime. This is really a fun band to see.
The slack rock or country alt-punk, or whatever label you want to apply to the band doesn't quite stick because they're as witty and sharp as Interpol but they sound like they're as unconcerned with their sound as Creedence. The garage band tone overall gives them that credibility that isn't found within the soundscape of any band these days. Most infamous local bands either want to sound like knock-offs of Kings of Leon, The Killers, or one of many unnamed torbid grunge rock clusters. These guys sing about the same kind of things like "Bad things just keep on happenin'/I keep, keep, keep, keep on clappin'," but they're actually being metaphorical and poignant instead of applying their lyrics to how they are when they're down trodden over a girl or losing their job or whatever the case maybe. They're keeping their heads up and their bottles empty through the music which lets you do the same without worrying about being contrary to what they call "the basics."
All of their sounds fit into a mood of whiskey shots, lawn chairs, and low lighting, but they don't relish arrogantly on like a depressive Wilco kraut-country ballad. You make it halfway to "That Pow'r You Possess" where the stomp stops and the lullaby rocks you to the realization that these guys are legit. They can wheel out genuine keg party anthems then lay down some heavy nostalgia as "Everyone's a Winner" and "Celia Sue" prove but even those songs keep their sway. They aren't merely an artful group of Arkansas boys with a few good instruments: they're the real deal. They're not just a backing band for someone like Nick Cave or Hank Williams although, and this maybe a pretty bold prediction but I can see them getting that kind of cred if they keep on clappin'."
- Cadron Valley Chronicle
"Don't Doubt It, Shout It by Frown Pow'r sounds like the Beatles if they came from the United States instead of England and kept playing in a little club instead of touring the world. And I mean that all in a good way. Maybe if the Beatles had followed this path they would've ended up this good."
- David Fair of HALF JAPANESE
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