GOOD DAY by Frank Forrest

Forrest Frank (of SURFACES)
​Last summer, Forrest Frank found himself at a creative crossroads. The Texas native had spent the past three years steadily building momentum with his friend and collaborator Colin Padalecki and their successful duo, SURFACES, who were months away from releasing their third self-produced album, Horizons. But the Houston-born 25-year-old, who’d temporarily put the idea of making solo music on the back burner to keep building on his band’s success, craved the freedom to make music just for himself again, like he’d once done for eight hours daily in his college bedroom, classes and homework be damned. Suddenly sensing that a change of scenery was in order, Forrest gathered a group of friends and headed off to a far-flung cliffside Airbnb on the coast of northern California. They cleared the furniture out, pushed the kitchen table against the home’s floor-to-ceiling, ocean-facing windows, and set up a makeshift studio that’d be their home for the next two weeks. Over the course of the following eight days, Frank and his collaborators crafted Effortless, a breezy, impassioned project that feels fully prescient in its embrace of urgent, joyous, take-a-load-off-and-stay-a-while escapism.


Forrest’s expansive, needle-moving new project is the culmination of the ten years the producer and vocalist has put into honing his craft, from early days recording himself singing in the front seat of his car as he learned how to strengthen his voice, to his years tinkering with beats on his iPhone in his bedroom with no inkling that he’d one day be performing to sold-out rooms, collaborating with Elton John, and playing late night talk shows with a massive hit single under his belt. “I’ve always been a dreamer, but I never actually let those dreams out into the world,” Forrest says. “Making music and putting myself so out there was a huge overcoming of those nerves and fear. To see the music so well-received is mind-boggling. I don’t think I’ll ever be able to fathom that it’s hitting so hard.”

Starring: Forrest Frank