Frazier Chorus were a pop

Pop music

Pop music is usually understood to be commercially recorded music, often oriented toward a youth market, usually consisting of relatively short, simple songs utilizing technological innovations to produce new variations on existing themes.- Definitions :David Hatch and Stephen Millward define pop...

 group

Band (music)

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 from Brighton

Brighton

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, England

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. A pop group without the usual guitarist

Guitarist

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, bassist

Bassist

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 or drummer

Drummer

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; they instead utilised flute

Flute

The flute is a musical instrument of the woodwind family. Unlike woodwind instruments with reeds, a flute is an aerophone or reedless wind instrument that produces its sound from the flow of air across an opening...

, clarinet

Clarinet

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, bongos

Bongo drum

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 and hushed vocals

Singing

Singing is the act of producing musical sounds with the voice, and augments regular speech by the use of both tonality and rhythm. One who sings is called a singer or vocalist. Singers perform music known as songs that can be sung either with or without accompaniment by musical instruments...

.

History

Originally a four-piece, they signed to British indie

Indie (music)

In music, independent music, often shortened to indie music or "indie" is a term used to describe independence from major commercial record labels or their subsidiaries, and an autonomous, Do-It-Yourself approach to recording and publishing....

 record label

Record label

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 4AD

4AD

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 and released the single

Single (music)

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 "Sloppy Heart" in 1987. Shortly afterwards they moved to Virgin Records

Virgin Records

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, and achieved reasonable chart

Record chart

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 success with a string of melodic pop song

Song

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s about Dream Kitchens, Happy Eater

Happy Eater

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s and Little Chef

Little Chef

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s, all taken from their 1989 debut album, Sue

Sue (album)

Sue is the debut album by Frazier Chorus and was released in 1989.The CD version of the album included an extra track "Little Chef". The album was reissued in 2008 on the Cherry Red Records label.- Virgin Records LP: V 2578 :...

.

With the emergence of the indie-dance scene in the early 1990s the band changed tack. Singles from their second album

Album

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 Ray

Ray (Frazier Chorus album)

Ray is the second album by Frazier Chorus and was released in 1991. A limited edition version of the LP and CD included The Baby Album, a four track bonus disc.- Virgin Records LP: V 2654, VFCX 2654 :- Virgin Records CD: CDV 2654, CDVFC 2654 :...

were remix

Remix

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ed into indie-dance floorfillers by a number of top remixers, including Paul Oakenfold

Paul Oakenfold

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, Chad Jackson

Chad Jackson

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 and Youth

Martin Glover

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. The band were restyled from the fey indie pop band of 1989 into an act more like The Beloved

The Beloved

The Beloved are an English electronic dance music group, best known for the singles "Sweet Harmony", "Hello", "Your Love Takes Me Higher", and "Satellite".-Formation:...

 and If?

If?

If? were an indie-dance band of the late 1980s and early 1990s signed to MCA Records. Comprising former JoBoxers members Sean McLusky and Robert Marche along with Paul Wells, they recorded such singles as "Everything And More" and "Saturday's Angels"....

.

Singer Tim Freeman released a third album billed as Frazier Chorus (Wide Awake

Wide Awake (Frazier Chorus album)

Wide Awake is the third and final album by Frazier Chorus and was released in 1995. In 1996 Pure Records released the album in the US, with a different running order and three extra tracks.- Pinkerton CD: PINKCD1 :...

), which did not reach the UK Albums Chart

UK Albums Chart

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, although it was released years after Ray on a small independent record label

Independent record label

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, while Kate Holmes moved into electronica via the bands Technique

Technique (band)

Technique was a female alternative synth pop band from the mid-1990s featuring Kate Holmes of Frazier Chorus and singer Xan Tyler. The band was named after New Order's 1989 album of the same name, and they were signed to Creation Records, the record label owned by Holmes's husband - Alan...

 and Client

Client (band)

Client are an English electronic musical group from London. They are most popular in Germany where they have had limited commercial success...

.

Tim Freeman is the brother of actor Martin Freeman

Martin Freeman

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, whose character "Tim Canterbury

Tim Canterbury

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" in The Office

The Office (UK TV series)

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was based on his sibling.

Studio albums

Year	Album	UK Albums Chart UK Albums Chart The UK Albums Chart is a list of albums ranked by physical and digital sales in the United Kingdom. It is compiled every week by The Official Charts Company and broadcast on a Sunday on BBC Radio 1 , and published in Music Week magazine and on the OCC website .To qualify for the UK albums chart...	Label Record label In the music industry, a record label is a brand and a trademark associated with the marketing of music recordings and music videos. Most commonly, a record label is the company that manages such brands and trademarks, coordinates the production, manufacture, distribution, marketing and promotion,...
1989	Sue Sue (album) Sue is the debut album by Frazier Chorus and was released in 1989.The CD version of the album included an extra track "Little Chef". The album was reissued in 2008 on the Cherry Red Records label.- Virgin Records LP: V 2578 :...	56	Virgin Records Virgin Records Virgin Records is a British record label founded by English entrepreneur Richard Branson, Simon Draper, and Nik Powell in 1972. The company grew to be a worldwide music phenomenon, with platinum performers such as Roy Orbison, Devo, Genesis, Keith Richards, Janet Jackson, Culture Club, Lenny...
1991	Ray Ray (Frazier Chorus album) Ray is the second album by Frazier Chorus and was released in 1991. A limited edition version of the LP and CD included The Baby Album, a four track bonus disc.- Virgin Records LP: V 2654, VFCX 2654 :- Virgin Records CD: CDV 2654, CDVFC 2654 :...	66	Virgin Records
1995	Wide Awake Wide Awake (Frazier Chorus album) Wide Awake is the third and final album by Frazier Chorus and was released in 1995. In 1996 Pure Records released the album in the US, with a different running order and three extra tracks.- Pinkerton CD: PINKCD1 :...	-	Pinkerton
"-" denotes releases that did not chart.

Singles

Year	Song	Peak chart positions			Album	Label Record label In the music industry, a record label is a brand and a trademark associated with the marketing of music recordings and music videos. Most commonly, a record label is the company that manages such brands and trademarks, coordinates the production, manufacture, distribution, marketing and promotion,...
		UK Singles Chart UK Singles Chart The UK Singles Chart is compiled by The Official Charts Company on behalf of the British record-industry. The full chart contains the top selling 200 singles in the United Kingdom based upon combined record sales and download numbers, though some media outlets only list the Top 40 or the Top 75 ...	US Alternative Songs	US Dance/Club Play Songs
1987	"Sloppy Heart"	-	-	-	Non-album release	4AD 4AD 4AD is a British independent record label that was started in 1979 by Ivo Watts-Russell and Peter Kent, funded by Beggars Banquet Records, and is still active today...
1988	"Dream Kitchen"	57	-	-	Sue Sue (album) Sue is the debut album by Frazier Chorus and was released in 1989.The CD version of the album included an extra track "Little Chef". The album was reissued in 2008 on the Cherry Red Records label.- Virgin Records LP: V 2578 :...	Virgin Records Virgin Records Virgin Records is a British record label founded by English entrepreneur Richard Branson, Simon Draper, and Nik Powell in 1972. The company grew to be a worldwide music phenomenon, with platinum performers such as Roy Orbison, Devo, Genesis, Keith Richards, Janet Jackson, Culture Club, Lenny...
1989	"Typical!"	53	-	-
"Sloppy Heart"	73	-	-
1990	"Cloud 8"	52	17	14	Ray Ray (Frazier Chorus album) Ray is the second album by Frazier Chorus and was released in 1991. A limited edition version of the LP and CD included The Baby Album, a four track bonus disc.- Virgin Records LP: V 2654, VFCX 2654 :- Virgin Records CD: CDV 2654, CDVFC 2654 :...
"Nothing"	51	-	28
1991	"Walking on Air"	60	-	-
1996	"Driving"	-	-	-	Wide Awake Wide Awake (Frazier Chorus album) Wide Awake is the third and final album by Frazier Chorus and was released in 1995. In 1996 Pure Records released the album in the US, with a different running order and three extra tracks.- Pinkerton CD: PINKCD1 :...	Pure Records
"Wide Awake"	-	-	-	Seedy Singles
"-" denotes releases that did not chart or were not released in that country.