Frank Cervantes

Frank Cervantes is a songwriter and recording artist from South Jersey, currently residing in Newtown, Pa. He is a founding member of the synthwave group Retroglyphs, and was priorly a member of The Once Was and The City Music Project.

Frank Cervantes has performed over 1,000 shows and is a consistent presence in the Philly area music scene. His music is often featured on WXPN in Philadelphia.

Cervantes released his first solo record, Forgotten Summer, in 2011. The record was recorded and produced by Grammy nominated producer Will Yip (Bartees Strange, Anthony Greene) at Studio 4 in Philadelphia. The album earned Frank a tri-state indie Artist of the Year nomination, and had 3 singles featured on NPR radio. Cervantes followed up with the critically acclaimed Terror of the Heart, and then the EP Lost Country, before pausing his solo career to focus on his synthwave project Retroglyphs.

2021 welcomed the release of Frank's first solo EP in 6 years, the 3 song EP Turn It Around.

Frank released more music in 2022 a new EP called Not Far Down the Road on 4/5/22 .

The single My War dropped in 2023 and Frank has plan to release more music later this year.

&#34;If <a href="spotify:artist:4EVpmkEwrLYEg6jIsiPMIb" data-name="Fleet Foxes">Fleet Foxes</a> and <a href="spotify:artist:3eqjTLE0HfPfh78zjh6TqT" data-name="Bruce Springsteen">Bruce Springsteen</a> had a baby&#34; - Philadelphia Weekly

&#34;walking a line between rollicking rock a la <a href="spotify:artist:1xVWSPiw5B0OduIC0DSu3V" data-name="Delta Spirit">Delta Spirit</a> on the title track “Forgotten Summer” and some <a href="spotify:artist:5gspAQIAH8nJUrMYgXjCJ2" data-name="Kurt Vile">Kurt Vile</a>-esque finger picking on “Keep the Line Drawn.” - WXPN&#39;s The Key Blog review of Forgotten Summer (album)