Frost Children on Tweaker Poem, Frost Fest, and working with Kim Petras

Fame brings frenzy.

Frost Children — the expansive EDM/pop project of siblings Lulu and Angel Prost — learned that lesson the hard way near the end of last year, when they experienced a phenomena all too common in music today: fan stalking. “Internet and real life things happening that were terrifying,” Angel tells the FADER in a July video call.

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They escaped the situation in a particularly rockstar manner by going from a New Years Eve bender DJing with The Dare straight to the airport for a trip to Tokyo: part-work trip, part way to simply get the hell away. In Japan, while still in the thrall of sleep deprivation and dis-ease, they made an EP. “We were just like, What would happen if we just stayed up and just kept going? What if the session just never ends and you just keep going?” shares Angel.

The result of that harried session is Tweaker Poem (out today, July 10, via RCA) a six-song project that expands the EDM pyrotechnics of 2025’s SISTER while still mining deeper into the duo’s ever-earnest, even optimistic, lyricism.

Even though the project was borne out of an experience that reflects the dark side of fame, Angel and Lulu approached depicting it with curiosity, exploring the idea of a superfan's projection as a creative starting point.

Angel even found inspiration in learning about Madonna’s notorious stalker, Robert Dewey Hoskins, quoting him directly in the record. “I was really fixating on that story,” says Angel. “I was interested in this duplication of yourself that happens when you are a public facing artist: there's you and then there's the version of you that lives in everyone's head, they kind of own that version.”

It's somewhat fitting that a project that directly responds to the pains of attention comes amidst the duo’s rising status in the pop landscape. They served as key producers across Kim Petras’s beloved debut album Detour, helping craft stand out tracks like its mythic opening title track and its sugary hit, “I Like Ur Look,” among others. The record’s success brought new attention to the duo as a generalized pop force, now proving they can take their solo synergy and apply it to others’ records.

To further cement their ascent, they have also inked a deal with a major label and are having their biggest headlining show yet, their very own festival in Queens’s Knockdown Center on July 25: Frost Fest featuring many FADER favorites like kuru, The Deep, The Femcels, and more.

The FADER chatted with Frost Children via video call in July to learn about the story behind Tweaker Poem, keeping music pure, and organizing the epic Frost Fest.

The FADER: The reaction to Kim Petras’s album (which you both contributed to significantly) has been so amazing. What’s been your biggest surprise after seeing the public’s reaction to it?
Lulu Prost: I was excited to see that Kim gained a lot of new traction and new fan bases. I kept getting sent reaction videos to ‘Detour’ on YouTube from more like rap guys, that would probably otherwise not be in the pop landscape, but because [the Kim album] occupies a new vibe in pop music [it’s reaching them]. I'm really honored that it has that scope on it.

Angel Prost: Lulu and I prior to meeting Kim were like, We really want to make music for another artist, someone that will let us be weird and experiment and make these kinds of bangers. Kim just hit us up out of the blue. The journey to get it out was definitely something she experienced and her own hardships to finally get the album out. We were on the sidelines cheering and hoping everything would work out, which I would say it did. The response has been amazing. When it came out, we were on a little weekend trip and I literally was just on my phone like, Whoa, this is so fire that universally everyone's like, “This is insane.” It's been cool to show that we can do that too where our production is a feature in itself.

That record coming out is coinciding with you both becoming more pop stars in your own right. Did you learn anything working with Kim or in the past years in your experience that prepared you for the processing of becoming bigger, but still comfortable?
Lulu Prost: We're just now signing to a major label. What's cool about working with Kim: she is looking to us for something that she hasn't been able to do in a long time, which is just making music with her friends. We're openly in the world of collaborations and it just seems really natural to us anyway. So when we came together it felt natural and I didn't think about anything. So, I don't know if there's anything to gain from it, per se.

I know your new project Tweaker Poem has quite the story behind it. Could you share a little bit about when this was made and what was going on?
Angel Prost: Basically we had this insane experience in the months leading up to the new year with a stalker. We wanted to get out of New York and feel anonymous and random. We did a DJ set with The Dare on New Year's Eve, just a private friends party basically, and we just stayed up all night, went to the airport January 1 at 7 a.m. and then went to Japan and got in the studio pretty much immediately. I've always been inspired by sleep deprivation or waking up first thing in the morning and making a beat or writing a song. This was sort of the ultimate challenge of that.

I was reading this book called Whisper of Fear by Rhonda Saunders. She's the leading figure in stalker law. She wrote all the first laws about it and represented a lot of celebrities in the ‘90s and 2000s. I I just started connecting that to our own experiences. It was not sympathy for a stalker, but this was my own way of trying to understand this traumatic thing that happened to us — not be too wounded or victimized by it. I don't think it's a victim album. We still kept it light and the album's not exactly just only focused on that, but that was happening at the same time and sort of just felt pertinent

Did you come away with a deeper understanding of this experience with stalking?
Angel Prost: The thing that I was fixating on was when you have someone so obsessed with you, they start to kind of fill in the blanks about you, because they obviously don't know you as a person. They have this imaginary version of you. It belongs to them and that leads to this spreading possessiveness. The thing that’s sort of beautiful is this belief that it wasn't meant to be in this life or, I know better than this idol that I'm harassing … I know that in another timeline this is supposed to be right That must feel very painful. We made it and I felt happier and got it out of my system and then we came back to New York and we're chill.

Lulu Prost: We started [making the project] because of that. But once we got into it then we also started forgetting about it sometimes and just having fun and like it was its own therapy and there are songs on there that we just made for fun.

Angel Prost: I think we just wanted to make something that felt like ... What if the past two years haven't happened? There's no expectations. There's no thinking if it's playable, just be crazy. We didn't dwell on any idea too long and just had an idea and did it. That was what our early music was like. It wasn't too calculated and there's such a beautiful quality to that.

Has this experience with stalking changed your relationship with the public or how you think about being artists?
Lulu Prost: I really love our fans. I think our fans are really cool and we have a cool relationship with them. I don't necessarily feel specifically cursed that we have a couple tweakers out there … that's the nature of any fan base of any kind. It definitely changed how I take care of myself, to not open my entire heart and whole soul to every single person that I meet. It's a bit of a whirlwind of emotions every time if you could imagine that.

Angel Prost: I don't want to scare people away from being friendly with us. It's a really specific kind of rare fan that would be crazy like this, but I definitely feel a bit more on guard now. And I'm sure every artist feels this way. You're maximum transparent when you're just starting and it feels fresh and punk to be very open, but I don't think it's a useful thing for our music anymore.

This all started as you two just making music as siblings. Does it feel hard to maintain the purity of that with all of this energetic input from the world?

Lulu Prost: No, I don't think so. The thing that we do together kind of shields us off from all the bullshit. The passion that we have for what we do, heals all the potential wounds that the world gives us. I was thinking about this because I watched that movie Nirvana the Band the Show the Movie on the flight and there was this really beautiful quote that was: “When you live life with your best friend, you don't notice getting older,” or something like that. There's just a lot of crazy people that we interact with, a lot. If we didn't have each other, it would be a lot crazier to manage emotionally. And I don't want to stop doing things either just because there was some crazy demon in one place that fucked up my whole night. I don't want to stop going out and DJing and performing and doing this stuff, but I think being together sort of cushions a lot of the crap.

Angel Prost: It's definitely scary going with a bigger label and stuff, but ultimately it feels ironic to make an EP about this subject with a bigger label. But also it’s been seamless because nothing's really changed for Lulu and I. I remember reading an interview with Justice where they're like, “We still are just making music together in our apartment.” The method hasn't really changed and it's still just us, the album's completely produced by us and written by us. So nothing's really changed. We're still making beats every day together. We're making edits and remixes all day and we finally bought CDJs and now we're DJing at home and practicing, which is really fun.

I'm curious to hear a little bit more about putting together this lineup for Frost Fest and where it fits in the world of Frost Children?

Lulu Prost: The lineup is mostly our homies. When we were thinking about a potential lineup we were thinking about other artists that we admire but ultimately it kind of dwindled down to homies we get along with on a human level too. It makes the whole experience really awesome because it's just a big hangout essentially.

Angel Prost: And I would already want to see these people anyway and we're all in opposite parts of the world at all times. It’s cool to gather all of these people in the same place for a night. Frost Children as a project is multifaceted in a beautiful way where it's equal parts emo, electronic and pop. Frost Fest is a representation of our peers that are doing different focused capsules of each of those things. It's also just a show that we wanted it to be something rare in New York, I don't think actually anyone there that's playing is based in New York, besides us and Kuru.