frail by design is recording

About Me

We are an instrumental post-rock band from the Madison, WI area. We formed in December of 2003 with our core members being Philip Biller on guitar, Nick Guenther on drums, Dan Jin on bass, and Ruthie Krause on violin/viola. Max Spransy entered into the fold early 2004 ..boards, Aaron Sherraden joined around mid 2005 on various instruments (mostly guitar), and we have recently recruited Corey Evans (drums/percussion master) to the band. Our first show was in February of 2004 and was a complete disaster, as we had only practiced altogether for the first time that same day. Since then, weâ€™ve played everywhere from Bettendorf, Iowa to Minneapolis, Minnesota. After much thorough practice, songwriting, and arranging, we recorded a 4-track album in April of 2006. A year later, the album was finished thanks to Max Spransy producing and mastering the work. A new EP is on the horizon...we'll keep you updated. Thanks for reading.
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Review of our self-released EP from DecoyMusic
Review of our EP from The The Silent Ballet
Review of "What It Means To Hope"
Studio update 1

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Member Since: 1/9/2006
Band Members: Phil Biller (guitar)

Ruthie Krause (violin,viola)

Dan Jin (bass)

Nick Guenther (drums)

Aaron Sherraden (guitar, trombone, percussion)

Corey Evans (drums, percussion)

Max Spransy (keyboards, recording/producing)

Influences: unwed sailor, foxhole, godspeed you! black emperor, yann tiersen, explosions in the sky, nickel creek, mogwai, death cab for cutie, anathallo, sigur ros, umphrey's mcgee
Sounds Like: Click the link below to download our up-to-date discography for free!
Frail by Design - FREE DOWNLOAD

We are poor musicians/students. A donation to our recording/touring fund would be greatly appreciated...

*US/CANADA RESIDENTS ONLY*
click the link below to purchase our cd directly from us for just 4 dollars + shipping!
*US/CANADA RESIDENTS ONLY - payments will not be accepted from elsewhere, sorry*

Frail by Design - self-titled EP, released April 2007
produced & mastered by Max Justus Spransy

Track listing:
1. What It Means To Hope (3:18)
2. A Longing For Peace (6:51)
3. Losing Your Best Friend (6:15)
4. Waiting Patiently (5:32)

Record Label: sign us. maybe.
Type of Label: None

My Blog

Recording update (pre-production news)

hello everyone,this weekend we went and did the whole pre-production deal. it turned out to be immensely productive, and i'm very very excited about the ideas we came up with as a group. our producer ...
Posted by frail by design is recording on Mon, 30 Jun 2008 05:24:00 PST

recording news/miscellaneous updates

Hope everyone's doing well, I thought I'd give a small update just because it's been some time since the last post.We're scheduled to record our next release (title not set in stone yet) at the Magic ...
Posted by frail by design is recording on Sun, 01 Jun 2008 09:26:00 PST

FREE download link up!

Just wanted to let you know, we have put up a free download link on our myspace page. It's under the "sounds like" section. The link includes our EP as well as some unreleased songs from the good old ...
Posted by frail by design is recording on Thu, 14 Feb 2008 10:21:00 PST

Many belated thanks for a wonderful 2007

Yes, it's February, but we wanted to thank some people who helped us so much in 2007.Max Spransy, who was masterful in producing our EP, which was released in April and opened a lot of doors for us;Gi...
Posted by frail by design is recording on Fri, 01 Feb 2008 12:20:00 PST

New song & pictures & live videos !

Hi everyone, just a few updates -We have posted a brand new song, titled "The End," to our myspace playlist.This was recorded at Radio K on 9/9/07 during our live on-air performance.It's rough and unm...
Posted by frail by design is recording on Fri, 14 Sep 2007 09:34:00 PST

Big thanks to Armand Babian & Decoymusic

Just wanted to give a big thanks to Armand Babian, an awesome reviewer from Decoymusic. He has kindly reviewed our EP and posted it on decoymusic.com...check it out here....
Posted by frail by design is recording on Fri, 14 Sep 2007 08:51:00 PST

thanks to UCLAradio, Radio K, and Giants

Just wanted to say thanks to Moffy who runs Post Rock Paper Scissors, an excellent show that runs from 12-2 PM PST on Tuesdays on UCLAradio.com and also Chris and Joe who run Now Like Photographs, an ...
Posted by frail by design is recording on Tue, 21 Aug 2007 01:03:00 PST

Another review...

The always awesome Silent Ballet has now put up a review of our self-released EP. check it out HERE.Thanks to Erich Meisterhope everyone's well,dan/fbd...
Posted by frail by design is recording on Fri, 27 Jul 2007 12:18:00 PST

Review by The Silent Ballet

Yay, a review of "What It Means To Hope" by the The Silent Ballet!Marked by the sounds of a viola, when you've become so accustomed to hearing the wails of a violin, Frail by Design are a septet from ...
Posted by frail by design is recording on Thu, 07 Jun 2007 11:18:00 PST

updates

hi folks,just a few updates.so our first 50 copies of the album went fast. we'll be making a second batch soon, so let us know if you'd like a copy.we have changed our band url from myspace.com/frailb...
Posted by frail by design is recording on Thu, 26 Apr 2007 09:27:00 PST