On October 27th, at around 7:30 pm a line full of individuals dressed in dweeb internet rot clothing with tones of early 2000 indie sleaze wrapped around Holocene. The club-like music venue located in Southeast Portland, OR, hosted sibling glitchcore DJ duo, Frost Children. Where I found myself Monday night of midterm week, also widely known for most college students as Halloweek. A week of nefarious night time activities, for me and many others, Frost Children was only the beginning.
I originally found the group back in the Fall of 2023, around the time the duet was starting to blow up from channels like The Lot Radio and their January 2023 release ‘Flatline’. I quickly suspected that the group would take off pretty soon and I stood corrected. It helps that the duo artistically fits the revival of indie sleaze. A forgotten aesthetic both sonically and materialistically that reappeared after releases of albums like BRAT and What’s Wrong With New York. A sound that is drenched in chaos, restlessness, and the realization of real life that inevitably sends an individual back into the chaos for another cycle: rinse and repeat.
Frost Children, a sibling duo, Angel and Lulu Prost, released their sixth LP, SISTER, on September 12, 2025. A full-length with no skip tracks and collaborations with Kim Petras and Babymorroco. Prior to its full release, ‘CONTROL’, was released earlier this year as a pregame to a techno-filled summer. Despite the LP’s release in dreary fall, its tracklist is filled with songs that feel like a forgotten soundtrack for a movie resembling the recklessness in Springbreakers (2012) or Bling Ring (2013).
The crowd was filled with varying age groups, though staying within the realm of young gen Z to late millennials. Overall a crowd that either listened to 2011 Skrillex on their own accord or because their older siblings blasted it on their way to school drop off. Individuals were dressed authentically, whether that be erotic Sonic (yes, I am referring to the cartoon), tails and ears or their own rendition of ‘dubstep academia’, a term coined by the duo themselves.
The audience was alive the moment the duo stepped out, Angel carrying a gold flag as she waves it in the air holding a mic covered in hair extensions resembling her own platinum strands. Lulu immediately asked the crowd how they’re feeling before starting their first song ‘Position Famous’. My initial shock and relief is how good the duo sounded in their vocals, which is not necessarily something you expect from a dubstep group. In between songs the group mixed live. It’s hard to nit pick notable moments through their performance because the entire hour and half moved seamlessly with hit after hit.
Unexpectedly, Lulu takes a guitar and introduces their slower song on the album ‘Sister’, a song that can only be interpreted as an ode to the duo’s close relationship through their new found fame. Seeing the two on stage interact with each other, checking in with one another periodically was heartwarming and made the entire set feel intimate. It’s not often I get to witness authentic chemistry between artists, siblings or not.
The energy was infectious, people who didn’t start out the night dancing to bass ended that way. The night felt like a dose of lotus– it was the first time in a while that I wasn’t checking the time. All I wanted was more and I wasn’t alone. When the pair stepped off, for about 10 minutes the crowd waited, chanting encore to no avail. Later FC took to social media to report they weren’t allowed another song by the venue, a let down to say the very least.
The main takeaway from the entire experience goes as: sleaze/punk tech never died, it just took a different shape, Frost Children deserve all the flowers for bringing authenticity back to the tech scene and venues if you’re booking an artist, to let them play.
