When twins Angel and Lulu Prost were kids growing up in St. Louis, they played in their church’s family band every Sunday. These days, the siblings—now known as Frost Children—make music so loud and chaotic it could give the pope a heart attack. Their new album, SISTER, feels engineered in a lab to make you move until it hurts. The duo, who came of age on brostep and Krewella, have built a career out of poking fun at taste itself—flipping a Super Smash Bros. theme into hyperpop one minute and writing a spoken-word piece about Bob Dylan discovering a Jack Harlow-branded salad the next. SISTER trims the irony and shoots straight for euphoria: a gleaming, overstimulated burst of EDM-pop that aims for the stars, even if the style has been tried a thousand times before.
The album rewinds to the era of EDC livestreams and Mad Decent boat parties, when dance music was maximalist, silly, and sincere. Frost Children crank that sugar rush up to chaos-level highs, all ecstatic drops and death-defying builds. Tracks like “Electric” and “Control” hit with cartoonish power—basslines that quake, synths that combust. “Don’t make me cry” sounds like a DAW imploding in real time, while “Ralph Lauren,” featuring Babymorocco, fuses glossy pop and squelchy club beats into something surprisingly fresh. Beneath all the sparkle and swagger, though, the duo sneak in a vulnerable streak: anxious lyrics, emo undercurrents, and cries for help woven into the sugar rush. On “Bound2U,” they snarl through heartbreak over a beat that feels like a detonated acoustic ballad, while the title track recalls their own teenage fights and reconciliations. Sometimes they go too hard—vocals that bulldoze over the mix—but when they let the music breathe, SISTER shines as delirious, emotional dance pop.
Still, the record never lands that one unforgettable hook—a “Clarity,” an “All I Am.” Songs like “What Is Forever For” and “Blue Eyes” drift into predictable future-bass clichés, all glittering drops and wistful synths that recall a decade-old YouTube playlist. Frost Children’s natural weirdness occasionally gets lost amid the polished chaos; they can go full lunatic like early Skrillex, but SISTER opts for safer, shinier terrain. Even so, it’s hard to resist the sheer energy pulsing through it. Depending on your patience for this EDM-pop resurgence—alongside peers like The Hellp, Ninajirachi, and Underscores—SISTER is either another glitch in the system or a blast of pure digital joy.
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