John Terrill
Between 1988 and 1998, John Terrill recorded Frowny Frown -- an out-of-time classic that mixes honey baked orchestration, acoustic soul, and pop-psychedelia into cracked and spellbinding songs. If Terrill is known outside the Bloomington/Indianapolis, Indiana music communities it's due to the groundbreaking, yet oft overlooked, music he made with the jagged, art-bent Dancing Cigarettes in the late 1970s and early 80s. Afterwards, Terrill co-lead the Rosebloods, playing the burgeoning alternative Midwest tour circuit. After the band's demise, Terrill shifted focus to the rawer punk outfit, the Walking Ruins. In the mid- 90s he started the pop directed Tea Cup, who played many of the songs found on Frowny Frown. While Tea Cup also disbanded, the Ruins reunite now and again.
In 2006 Terrill was featured on the David Tibet curated compilation Not Alone alongside Antony, Vashti Bunyan, Shirley Collins, and others.
Frowny Frown is Terrill's first and only solo album.