The Fat Angel Sings

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Greta Kline’s studio debut as Frankie Cosmos steeps itself in a sort of surface level self-loathing. But despite song titles like “Sad 2” and lyrical assertions that she’s “the kind of girl buses splash with rain,” the true triumph of the album “Zentropy“ comes from a sense of wide-eyed innocence and optimism that runs through the record’s brief 17-minute runtime. Similar to the several decades of indie pop antecedents that populate the rosters of Slumberland and K Records, the guitars shimmer and sputter, drums clatter to life with a lighthearted crackle, and Kline’s apparently downcast lyrics turn tongue-in-cheek, offering ways of overcoming in the midst of post-millennial malaise. It’s a surprisingly mature sentiment from a songwriter who was only 19 years old at the time of the album’s release, especially in an era where void-gazing is popular, As she sings on “My I Love You”, sometimes you just have to “do what [you] have to do,” and Kline has uniquely figured out how to soundtrack that process in a sneakily buoyant way.

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