Frau (band)

{{Use American English|date=March 2021}} {{short description|Punk band}} {{Use dmy dates|date=April 2021}} {{Infobox musical artist | name = Frau | image = | caption = | origin = London, England | genre = [[Punk rock|Punk]], [[Hardcore punk|hardcore]] | label = [[Static Shock Records|Static Shock]] | current_members = *Ashley Holland *Colette Rosa *Paula Darias *Núria | website = https://fraupunk.bandcamp.com/ }}

'''Frau''' is an all-female [[hardcore punk]] band from London, England.<ref name="Impose">{{cite magazine|last=Myint|first=Ava|title=FRAU, 'MIRA'|magazine=[[Impose (magazine)|Impose Magazine]]|date=August 12, 2015|url=https://imposemagazine.com/bytes/new-music/frau-mira|accessdate=2 August 2022}}</ref> ''[[Billboard (magazine)|Billboard]]'' magazine named them one of "20 All-Female Bands You Need To Know"; rock critic Maria Sherman compares their sound to [[Bikini Kill]].<ref>{{cite magazine|last=Sherman|first=Maria|title=20 All-Female Bands You Need To Know|magazine=[[Billboard (magazine)|Billboard]]|date=March 6, 2015|url=https://www.billboard.com/articles/pop-shop/girl-group-week/6494444/20-female-bands-sleater-kinney-ex-hex-girlpool|accessdate=2 August 2022}}</ref> The punkzine ''[[Maximumrocknroll]]'' describes the band's highly charged and frantic sound as equal to the flippant swagger of [[Teenage Jesus and the Jerks]].<ref>{{cite magazine|last1=Layla|title=Record of the Week: FRAU Punk Is My Boyfriend EP|magazine=[[Maximumrocknroll]]|date=September 23, 2014|url=http://www.maximumrocknroll.com/record-of-the-week-frau-punk-is-my-boyfriend-ep/|accessdate=2 August 2022}}</ref> Ashley Holland of the band, who also plays with Personnel and [[Good Throb]], states that Frau seldom plays with other hardcore bands because the hardcore punk scene does not take female musicians seriously.<ref>{{cite news|last=Bakare|first=Lance|title=From Bad Brains to Cerebral Ballzy: why hardcore will never die|url=https://www.theguardian.com/music/2014/nov/20/hardcore-music-hard-fast-us-punk-rock|work=[[The Guardian]]|date=November 20, 2014|accessdate=2 August 2022}}</ref> In addition to Holland, the other members of the band are Colette Rosa who sings in queercore punk band [[Woolf (band)|Woolf]], Paula and Núria who also played in the Barcelona band Las Timidas. The band's sound has been noted for the use of intense distortion with powerful, forceful vocals.<ref>{{cite magazine|last=Hanson|first=Carolyn|title=10 Noise Bands You Need To Know Right Now|magazine=[[Nylon (magazine)|Nylon]]|date=September 20, 2016|url=https://www.nylon.com/articles/women-in-noise-music|accessdate=2 August 2022}}</ref>

==Recordings== Their debut EP, ''Punk is my Boyfriend'', was released by [[Static Shock Records]] in 2014; and ''Mira'' was released in 2015.<ref name="Impose"/><ref>{{cite web|last1=Gibbon|first1=Layla|last2=Skolnik|first2=Jes|last3=Nelson|first3=J.R.|last4=Cupcake|first4=Lorena|title=The 11 Very Best Punk Songs of 2014|url=https://pitchfork.com/thepitch/620-the-11-very-best-punk-songs-of-2014/|website=[[Pitchfork (website)|Pitchfork]]|date=29 December 2014|accessdate=March 27, 2021}}</ref>

==See also== *[[Women in punk rock]]

==References== {{Reflist}}

[[Category:All-female punk bands]] [[Category:Rock music groups from London]] [[Category:Underground punk scene in the United Kingdom]] [[Category:Spanish all-female bands]] [[Category:English all-female bands]]