PREMIERE Get Lost Cassidy Frost, "Like I Did Before"
At home and exploring the ever-winding and expansive excavations of introspection with Cassidy Frost; press photo courtesy of the artist.
The cold snap of the seasonal shift sends the self searching inward for the answers to the most candid questions. The lingering thoughts, the restless and languid language that populates the word processor stages of the mind’s theater. Rivers of reflection streams that analyze why things fall apart, how people can be incompatible, and how we can stand in the way of our own truths and the places where we connect and break with our most intimate, interpersonal attachments. The present and past are mulled over like spices in a cider as the winter casts a sleepy haze upon a tired and weary world.
Channeling these charged spirits is prolific San Francisco multi-hyphenate Get Lost Cassidy Frost with a new home recorded symphony of the psychic, sentimental, and the self — “Like I Did Before”. Their latest sojourn into understanding the undercurrents and overtures of all that encompasses us blends the bleakness of despair with a brightly lit (and precisely and tightly arranged) production. Always pushing forward on the possibilities of instrumental & arrangement economies, “Before” breaks into that liminal space from the DIY chamber pop fare and Top 40-friendly festival platforms.
A natural progression that follows Live in Private from the beginning of 2025, Cassidy Frost rolls & strolls into the personal reckonings that can be the toughest to contend with. “Like I Did Before” presents the processes of trying to figure it all out, rock tumbling over the pieces of ourselves we offer to one another, and the complicated feelings of confusions and connections that cause friction. Strumming and singing with a skip-step drum machine; Cassidy displays the vulnerabilities of the heart and soul, delivering muffled and bleary-eyed harmonies of hope and gingerly hemmed hums of humanity.
Get Lost Cassidy Frost journeys to the foundational core of heartaches, healing the soreness of spirits in that elusive search for a center, and an assured sensibility. “Like I Did Before” moves past sulking in the wake of sullen situations, and works to sort out the things that change and grow over the course of time. The senses of confidence, security, and amicable interdependence are expressed in memorable melodies that humbly sing out into the infinity of the wilderness that wanderers toward states of sound stability, and a sense of solid ground. GLCF seeks to move past the ways and wounds of the past with the experience-earned wisdom and knowledge that champions limitless growth and advancement of both individual, and universal bodies of knowledge.
Visions, grace, guitar, and Get Lost Cassidy Frost; press photo courtesy of the artist.
Cassidy shared the following thoughts on “Like I Did Before”:
This song is like a little sound movie I made to try and bottle the sad, sweet feeling of loving someone who isn’t right for me.
It’s a first-person account of the way I try to grasp for control by blaming myself when things fall apart. I tell myself that it’ll all work out if I can just fix everything that’s wrong with me. It’s impressive how foolish I can be.
Single cover art for “Like I Did Before”.
It was recorded in my apartment here in the Mission last month on my little Casiotone MT-600 and an old Hohner soprano melodica.
“Like I Did Before” is out now via Bandcamp.