On a whim, Wavelength decided to throw out all pretensions to objectivity, and let a band tell their own story:
Frink was born from a poster hanging on the wall of that venerable Queen West institution Rotate This in October '98:Dave tears a tag from Larry’s poster in aforementioned record store. Telephone tag ensues. Eventually the two play together.
Dave (formerly of Gas Free Oxford) plays East Coast-y indie-folk songs and Larry plays ambient/noise guitar overtop.Under the name Frink, Dave and Larry perform as a duo at various Toronto venues until early '00 when Aidan joins, adding drums and flute to the guitar mix. Veronica is recruited by a drunken Dave after an office Xmas party performance of Tool songs on her cello.
As a 4-piece, they play almost-typical melancholy pop songs thrown off-kilter by weird fuzzed-out noise and unique instrumentation. Forming a thick stew of folk and noise, pop with effect-heavy feedback, and pretty words about former obsessions, Frink set out, to quote Larry, to "give the Toronto music scene a poke in the eye with a sharp stick"