Their new LP is out March 29 on Deathwish Inc. // See Frail Body at their CHI + MKE record release shows, and on tour in the U.K. and EUR this April (inc. an appearance at Roadburn Festival).

Illinois-based Frail Body embodies the spirit and soul of what many define as “screamo;” their songs are lamentations about nihilism, death, anxiety, existentialism and hopelessness of existence in modern American society, and both lyrically and sonically they unfurl with ground-shaking emotion. Their forthcoming sophomore LP, ‘Artificial Bouquet’ (March 29, 2024 via Deathwish Inc.), is a shining example that the once dormant sub-genre continues to evolve and thrive for all the world to see. Just shy of two week’s ahead of the album’s release, Frail Body have shared an animated music video for their third single, ‘Horizon Line’. Vocalist/guitarist Lowell Shaffer comments, “‘Horizon Line’ is about the worst day of my life. Frail Body was in the middle of a tour that I shouldn’t have agreed to as my mother was terminal. I got a text when we rolled into Colorado Springs that my mother was going to the emergency room and probably wouldn’t be coming back. I also had a sinus infection at the time. The low point of being physically sick and returning home in shame as a son who deserted his duties to family as my mother was dying made me question a lot of my motivations, goals, and my friendships and the power that they hold over me. My mother passed away a few days later. I was able to be home, but I made a decision, and it was the wrong one, but I also wasn’t sure that this band would stay together if I didn’t commit to it. So now this whole thing exists as a self constructed pillar of my shame and failure to my loved ones.” Directed and animated by Torey Kervick. Produced, engineered, and recorded by Pete Grossmann at Bricktop Recording, and mastered by Jack Shirley at The Atomic Garden, ‘Artificial Bouquet’ establishes Frail Body as leaders within the modern screamo movement—all of it so raw and beautifully out of control.

Photo by: Angel Tumalan

Frail Body, on tour:

March 29 Chicago, IL at Subterranean (Record Release Show)
March 30 Cudahy, WI at X-Ray Arcade (Record Release Show)

April 10 Glasgow, UK @ Garage Attic #
April 11 Leeds, UK @ Boom #
April 12 Bristol, UK @ Crofters Rights #
April 13 London, UK @ Downstairs at the Dome #
April 14 Brighton, UK @ The Hope and Ruin #
April 16 Lille, FR @ Brat Cave &
April 17 Antwerp, BE @ Antwerp Music City &
April 18 Paris, FR @ L’International &
April 20 Tilburg, NL @ Roadburn Festival
April 21 Liege, BE @ La Zone &
April 23 Frankfurt, DE @ Juha West &
April 24 La Chaux-de-Fonds, CH @ Bikini Test &
April 25 Milan, IT @ COX18 &
April 26 Modena, IT @ La Tienda &
April 27 Rome, IT @ RCCB INIT &

# w/ Chalk Hands
& w/ Knoll