Frankie Cosmos was originally a bedroom pop outlet for Greta Kline, who released a lot of stuff before ever releasing a proper full-length album. However, Frankie Cosmos has existed as a full band, with regular members, for a few albums now. They remain quite prolific, but the sound of a full band really rounded things out around Kline’s lyrics.
“Next Thing” is the best album from 2016, which may be enough alone to get it on this list given that 2016 as not all that long ago. However, beyond being fantastic and influencing people as a byproduct of making great music, there is a case to be made beyond that for Frankie Cosmos. The project began as a bedroom project of Greta Kline, and with “Next Thing” she finally made the project manifest as a full-length, proper release. The bedroom pop artist is certainly a niche well-known in this modern, internet-heavy era, but albums like “Next Thing” bring that into the limelight.
Frankie Cosmos have shared an official video for their emotive new single “Bitch Heart.” Director, Eliza Lu Doyle shares about the song/video: “To me the song is about being torn between the comforts of domesticated life and your innate wildness. There’s a yearning for a more feral time––before you touched your fucking phone all day. So we made Greta into a dog-shepherd, someone who straddles those two realms. Meanwhile the band performs a line dance that’s somehow constrained and exuberant at once. Everything is shot in the dark using infrared and thermal cameras, hovering in the not-quite-real.”
“Different Talking”, the sixth and, so far, best album by NYC indie-rock four-piece Frankie Cosmos, exists across time and space, as we all do. It’s a collection of fragments and memories, remembered places, and reinterpreted feelings that adds up to a lucent, humming whole: a sturdy, worldly indie-rock record about aging and the passage of time that nonetheless manages to feel sharply current.
Frankie Cosmos has announced a World Tour in support of the groups forthcoming long player From the upcoming album ‘Different Talking’, out June 27th on Sub Pop Records.
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