“Love As Projection“ is the new album by Frankie Rose, It’s her fifth studio LP and second for Night School following the reissue of her interpretation of The Cure’s “Seventeen Seconds“. Frankie Rose has forged an enviable musical legacy, from playing with bands like Crystal Stilts and The Vivian Girls but on “Love As Projection“ she takes a bold step into electronic pop production. A sumptuous recorded statement, it dances in ecstasy and broods on the tumult of the western world’s decay in equal proportion. At the heart of the album is glowing, confident songwriting, resplendent in hooks and choruses but still touched with an optimism undimmed.
A newfound creative freedom goes hand-in-hand with meticulous studio tooling on Frankie Rose’s fifth album, “Love As Projection”, a lush and exquisitely rendered record that stretches from pounding new wave anthems to slickly produced bursts of elaborate electropop. The album’s ten tracks dip in and out of atmospheres but never stray from Rose’s ethereal sensibilities or her unifying retro-futurist musical vision. The synths ripple, her voice soars, and sometimes, like on “Come Back,” it all comes together at the point of ecstasy.
released March 10th, 2023
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