Surprise Chef / Frogs In A Pond LP Black Vinyl ***PRE-ORDER***

Surprise Chef 'Frogs In A Pond' LP Black Vinyl

Preorder shipping from 23 October 2026

Australian quartet Surprise Chef live and breathe music together. Three members of the band share a house outside of Melbourne, which is also home to their self-built, analog College of Knowledge studio. Their closeness, honed over a decade of playing together, is felt in every note. For their fifth studio album Frogs In A Pond, and first release as a newly signed artist to Concord Jazz, they bring their oft-described “cinematic” sound to new heights, with a lush, intricately & beautifully crafted 40-minute suite.  They were particularly inspired by Italian giallo cinema of the 1960s and ‘70s, an approach to film scoring that relished in the avant-garde, embracing the strange and mysterious.  It’s an invitation from Surprise Chef to sit down, unplug and listen for a while, and take a journey into the dark unknown.

Tracklist:

1. Inside Voice

2. Outside Voice

3. Frog Technique

4. Knuckle Sandwich

5. I Love What You’ve Done With The Place

6. Get Well Soon

7. Rupture and Repair

8. The Reno

9. Tadpoles

10. Leg Day

11. Where The Crows Fly Backwards

12. Omnipresence

13. Frogs In A Pond