FRAME
FRAME’s Caitlin Frame; photographed by Daniel Dorsa.
FRAME emerged into the pop spectrum in 2014 with singles like “Run Around” & “Polarizer” and today sent us news of an upcoming album with the brilliant single “Love Wasted”. The vision of Brooklyn’s Caitlin Frame, the Berklee student composes vignettes that depict the intricacies of complicated connections & relationships with arrangements that throw a hook at you on every harmonic iota of involved audio.
“Love Wasted” brings to mind all of your favorite vocal pop artists from the 70s & 80s that your parents & older siblings introduced you to back in the day. Caitlin conveys the wayward adventures of nights spent pursuing objects of affection & desires that evaporate like the morning dew that rests gently on the leaves & petals of plants & flowers. With the reiterations of “tell me what I did last night” all throughout the damn near perfect pop track; Caitlin conveys tales of a night where feelings and connections were imbibed and exchanged that are coupled with the confrontational math of “if you don’t want it anymore, say you don’t want it anymore.” “Love Wasted” is FRAME taking the listener on a mesmerizing trip through the inexpressible expressions and those uneven grey areas where weird & vague feelings shake up the meanings on a variety of fronts that more often than not involve more than just two parties. Caitlin Frame described the new single and upcoming album with the following insights:
: “Love Wasted” is about the feeling you get when you’re falling for someone—basically being blackout drunk emotionally. It’s simultaneously about losing love and accepting it.
Out of the frame with FRAME’s Caitlin Frame; photographed by Daniel Dorsa.
The forthcoming album (release date TBD) depicts the tail end of an 8 year relationship I was in and its breaking points—an open marriage and our idea of polyamory, intentionally breaking explicit rules we placed for one another and falling in love with someone a decade younger. It sounds salacious, but I think the fear of what love becomes after it’s over is universal. I also think having a constant companion throughout my 20s made those years feel less uncertain because we had this love, a sense of comfort was easy to settle into, so to have that all fall apart on the cusp of 30 felt like a true failure. I’m really happy with what I turned those emotions into, I can listen to these songs and it reflects the struggle, but it’s also a beautiful book end to my marriage.
