Frozen Inertia - Remember the Exit Might be Right Behind You [EP]

Frozen Inertia is a US based indie experimental rock band with roots in San Francisco California and Akron Ohio. The leading members are Timothy Graves (baritone guitar, bass, synths, vocals) and Brad Palmer (drums, percussion, accordion, keys). Their music has been featured on a variety of national college radio stations (occasionally hitting top 100 NACC charts), independent films, and on BBC Radio 6 in the UK.

Frozen Inertia’s new EP “Remember the Exit Might Be Right Behind You” released January 9th, 2026, stemmed from an abstract instrumental “Remember the Exit May be Located Behind You” from their previous album, Reflectivity released in 2025. Guest musician Tim Lefebvre (David Bowie’s Blackstar) contributed such a dynamic, dark bass line that the band thought it had to be reimagined into a bigger rock track. Jenny Joy contributed an amazing vocal line to add to the intensity, channeling a bit of PJ Harvey vibes to it.

This opened the opportunity to revisit a few other songs that seem to fit a similar mood. “Red Sky at Noon” was remixed by Dan Duszynski (Loma, Shearwater) to provide the song with a stronger sense of urgency to the lyrics sung beautifully by Nastassia Moore. The band was honored to have guest musician Dana Colley (Morphine) on Baritone Sax for “Moore’s Law” which has been fully remixed while still maintaining the retro/low-fi vibe (i.e. only one microphone for the drums), while the lyrics seem to maintain relevance given the current AI tech mania.

There’s also a cover of a Kate Bush song, ‘King of the Mountain’, where the initial tracks were recorded in a Chicago apartment nearly twenty years ago, shortly after Kate Bush’s original release in 2005. The multi-tracks of the initial recordings were lost, but recent technology has allowed for a restoration of the tracks and the ability to add new instruments and vocals.

The EP ends with a fourteen minute instrumental, ‘aurora borealis’, which is the fusing together and remixing of several songs off the Reflectivity album that seemed to hold their own with vocals removed. The beginning features NYC based Juilliard School modern oboist Pablo O’Connell and the track finishes with the amazing Hammond B3 improvisation of Scott Guberman (Grateful Dead).