If you've ever been on a mad night out that got out of hand, you'll get this song. It's a song about the blurred lines between hedonism, self-control and addiction, and it's all there in the track. 
It's about the cyclical nature of drink and drug abuse and the way time itself distorts when you approach the precipice of the void. We wrote the song in a way to mirror that feeling of trying to keep the night going when everybody else going home; that desperate search for small hour thrills, interspersed with peals of drum and bass, hazy taxi rides and streetside longing.

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EDGING is a about the frustration of trying to achieve something but never quite making it to where you want to be. That feeling when you’re expending energy, fuel, time, hope but every time you stop to check how far you’ve come, you’ve barely moved. This is a song for anybody who ever tried a thing and it didn’t work out as planned. It’s an ode to every plan gone awry, every dream tarnished, every attempt missed. And it’s an homage all of those people who get up, brush themselves off, and keep on trying.

Edging

At its core, INSIST is a love song. But unlike most love songs in the western romance vein, where the other person is seen as an object in the pursuit of self-actualisation, we wanted to explore how love is not about seeking somebody to complete us, but about finding somebody who makes us want to make ourselves complete.

Like many of our songs, this song could also apply to our planet. We must insist that we’re stronger and truer for it. There’s a trust that we sustain one another. Humanity has often broken that trust.

We're First Frontier, a Birmingham-based rock duo and this is Insist, our 4th single(ahead of our debut EP - Just Matter EP - which is out on 18th March, 2022). We like this tune a lot. If you’ve heard any of our previous singles, you’ll immediately recognise that Insist is slower and much less intense than some of our other songs. We wanted to explore a more vulnerable side of ourselves. We hope you enjoy going there with us and would love for you to take a listen and see if it’s something you’d like to write about and/or share.

Engineered and recorded by Nic Bueth (of the band TV Priest) in Hackney Wick, East London, and Dave Beauclerr at Brockley Studios, and produced by First Frontier, Insist opens with First Frontier’s gentlest ever riff, a delicate intro that picks up certainty and resolve as it progresses. Helena’s drums mimic a heartbeat, but also seem to reverberate like a conscience in the dark night of the soul. This is also the first song where Helena and Paul have shared lead vocals, something that you’ll likely be hearing more of in future tracks.

Insist

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This is Break Away, our debut single. It's a fierce, female-fronted rock song about cutting ties with bad companies / people in our lives. It has a raw, rasping guitar, precise, clinical drum riff, and impassioned vocals, like a protest song. Classic / garage rock. We hope you enjoy. Thanks, H&P @ First Frontier

Break Away

Birmingham-based garage rock duo, Phwoar(previously known as First Frontier), make spirited, upbeat music to move to and be moved by. They've unleashed the frenzy of their energetic rhythms and soul-searching, upbeat lyrics on audiences since 2020. They are Helena, pounding drums, and Paul, flogging guitar, with both sharing vocal duties; Brummie banter and Northern grit smelted down to forge new music, described by genuine human people as either neo-garage, post-punk and rock in many guises.

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