Grog

Critic Score
Based on 3 reviews
User Score
Based on 327 ratings
2023 Ratings: #124
November 17, 2023 / Release Date
LP / Format
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Critic Reviews

90
God Is in the TV

As with all of Frog’s releases, it carves its own niche, on its own terms. Sounding in turns like Silver Jews, Townes Van Zandt, and Jonathan Richman they make sweet, sad, urban Americana familiar enough to make us feel at home, but spend some time with it, and things get weird as hell.

80
Spill Magazine

Frog seems to have gathered a new sense of inventiveness and energy, coming up with that not easily definable sound between everything that was and is cool about New Zealand’s Flying Nun Records and left-field Americana, picking up pieces from everywhere and arranging them in a manner that suited Bateman brothers’ fancy.

74
Pitchfork

Unified by its abundant lo-fi charm and with lyrics referencing the Butthole Surfers, Dexedrine, and Taco Bell, the squirrelly New York alt-country duo sounds more playfully idiosyncratic than ever.

ST4T1C
95

10 DAY ALBUM SWAP w/ @Stupidrob Day 6/10

Apologies, taking some days off for myself.

I honestly don’t really have much to say about “Grog”, it’s just a really beautifully charming, fun and high quality slacker rock / country album that I absolutely adored. Amazingly written, cute production, basically the whole package for me to love this kinda shit. Not necessarily the most unique thing in the world, but god damnit it gets the job done, and it gets it done really ... read more

SnowyFighter
85

🐸 > Everything

Holy fuck it’s Frog. This is now the best band of all time, no questions asked. Okay really though I enjoyed this a lot! Indie rock mixed with a touch of folk and country and plenty of great hooks to keep me wanting more. I found this band completely randomly, I heard the song So Twisted Fate and fell in love INSTANTLY. I’ve listened to that song so many times since I first heard it like 4 days ago. I love love loveeee it it’s so god damn catchy. This ... read more

MarZsGD
96

she grog on my frog till i 5¢

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stanyeslaw
70

Some fun indie rock. Keep it away from Max and Chad though.

numbnuts40
87

this is amazing. not much more to say.

BlackSnowy
56

Indie rock and folk. Not good, not bad. I prefer the more rock oriented tracks.

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Track List

1Grog
0:22
72
2Goes W / O Saying
5:00
90
3420!!
3:10
84
4U Shud Go 2 Me
2:48
82
5Black on Black on Black
3:40
93
6Doom Song
1:46
81
7Maybelline
3:00
86
8So Twisted Fate
3:03
88
9Ur Still Mine
5:53
89
10New Ro
3:11
85
11Gone Back to Stanford
4:12
85
Total Length: 36 minutes
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