Milwaukee experimental rock duo The Frogs have returned to their 1996 album My Daughter The Broad with a new expanded 2LP vinyl edition, out now through Foreign Leisure Records.

Built around brothers Jimmy and Dennis Flemion, The Frogs earned a reputation for improvised home recordings, dark satire, catchy songwriting and live performances that gleefully pushed good taste out the nearest window. My Daughter The Broad, originally released through Matador Records, remains a particularly concentrated dose of that approach.

The record comes from an era when stranger corners of alternative rock could find unexpectedly large audiences. The Frogs occupied their own place within that world, combining intentionally provocative and frequently NSFW humor with an underlying pop sensibility that attracted an unusually prominent group of admirers.

Among the band's fans were Kurt Cobain, Pearl Jam, Beck and The Smashing Pumpkins. Billy Corgan also produced The Frogs’ Starjob EP, further connecting the Milwaukee group to the alternative-rock explosion happening around them during the 1990s.

The Frogs themselves go back much further. Jimmy and Dennis formed the band in Milwaukee in 1980, initially performing punk-styled covers before developing an increasingly theatrical identity involving costumes, bat wings, boas, fog and flashpots. Their self-titled debut arrived in 1988, followed by It’s Only Right and Natural in 1989 and a long catalog of unconventional releases.

Dennis Flemion died in 2012, ending the brothers’ 32-year run together, though Jimmy has continued making music and performing material connected to The Frogs.

Three decades after its original release, My Daughter The Broad remains a document of a band committed to following its strangest impulses wherever they led. The expanded reissue gives listeners another chance to enter that world, provided they know exactly what kind of ride they’re getting into.