Skip to main content

Frankie Cosmos

 108

Frankie Cosmos

 

Frankie Cosmos

Frankie Cosmos is the bedroom project of Greta Kline. I first became aware of Frankie when her super lo-fi, independent 2014 release Zentropy album cover kept popping up on the usual indie publications and websites. The album cover left an impression on me because it had a picture of an adorable dog. But for whatever reason, I paid no mind and never checked it out. It wasn’t until Frankie released her Fit Me In EP in 2015 that I figured, “Hey, I’ve kept seeing this name popping up, I might as well check it out.” Boy, am I glad I did! As soon as I heard her song “Young” I knew I had discovered a new artist that I was going to love. Few songs hit you right away. A song that sounds so familiar, you wonder how you’ve gone your whole life living without it. That was “Young” for me. It spoke to me, as if Frankie wrote a song and was singing it directly to me. It’s that particular feeling that all music-lovers keep chasing. Anyways, that whole EP was amazing. So, with that, I went and listened to the other album I had seen so many times before, the one with the cute pup on the cover. That album was just as consistent and great as the EP. I now understood why she was getting so much hype from the press for Zentropy and a huge part of me was upset that I didn’t jump on board earlier. Frankie has released three albums since I’ve become a fan. 2016’s Next Thing, another amazing album coming off the heels of the EP that made me a fan. 2018 saw the release of Vessel, and 2019 saw the release of Close It Quietly, both released on Sub Pop records. So, let’s re-cap: Indie pop group Frankie Cosmos started off as a home-based solo project in the early 2010s. By 2012, singer/songwriter and bandleader Greta Kline dropped out of college to begin focusing on music and playing live. Following dozens of home-recorded, self-released collections, Frankie Cosmos' debut, Zentropy, arrived in 2014. It represented Kline's first studio album, completed with the help of a full band. She soon signed with Bayonet Records, which issued the four-track Fit Me In EP a year later. The second Frankie Cosmos studio album was written as the songwriter transitioned into her twenties. Titled Next Thing, it saw a release in 2016. Next Thing spent a week at the number 13 spot on the Billboard Heatseekers Albums chart and was a Top 40 independent album. Since then, she’s been releasing consistently great music, proving, great music can’t stay hidden and underground forever- it will eventually boil up to the top and be sent into the cosmos... Just as a great as Picasso…

It’s…

Frankie Cosmos


Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

Cake

43 Cake Cake What you need is some CAKE. The late 90's were primed for CAKE. When the emotional hangover of the grunge scene was too much, we got CAKE. This isn't a gag joke. In fact- your gag reflexes are in need of some CAKE.  Despite CAKE's quirky surface, singer John McCrea's deadpan delivery and Vince Di Fiore's mariachi trumpet playing, CAKE is as real as it gets. And with more than 25 years as a band and still going strong, they have nothing left to prove. It all started with 1994's Motorcade for Generosity with the single " Rock 'n' Roll Lifestyle " which mocked trust-fund rebels. Then came 1996's Fashion Nugget with the all-time classic " The Distance ." 1998 gave us Prolonging the Magic, a high-water mark. I got on board in 2001 with Comfort Eagle . I was big on disco at the time and their cover of " I Will Survive " caught my attention, and then I saw the " Short Skirt, Long Jacket " video o...
Post a Comment
Read more

Grouper

 131 Grouper  Grouper Reverb. Echo. Effects. Acoustic. Droney. These are some words you could use to explain Grouper's earlier work. Grouper is the solo project of Liz Harris. Her first album was self-titled & self-released. Grouper's second album was 2006's Way Their Crept . There was something special about that mid-ought's droney-underwater sounding indie. Grouper would go on to release five (!) more albums before I came on board as a fan: 2006's Wide , 2007's Cover The Windows & The Walls , 2008's widely acclaimed Dragging a Dead Deer Up a Hill & 2011's double-album (but separately released) AIA: Dream Loss & AIA: Alien Observer ... just to be followed up by 2012's double album: Violent Replacement Part I and Violent Replacement Part II . It wasn't until Grouper's more structured-releases that I became a full fledged fan. It was with 2013's The Man Who Died In His Boat that I finally jumped on board as a full-fled...
Post a Comment
Read more

The Band

19 The Band The Band First known as the Hawks, the Band got their initial fame as Bob Dylan’s backing band. Remember when Bob Dylan sold out and went electric, angering fans so much that they called him “ Judas ”? Well, you can thank all of that to the Band. For a band that sounds so fucking American (seriously- no band has done the whole Americana roots music better than the Band) it’s pretty funny most of them were Canadian. After finally branching out on their own in 1968, the Band would release some of the best music ever recorded… and if you thought the Beatles had a hell of a run- check out the Band’s discography: 1968’s Music From Big Pink , 1969’s self-titled The Band , 1970’s Stage Fright , 1971’s Cahoots , 1972’s live-album Rock of Ages , 1973’s Moondog Matinee , 1975’s Northern Lights -Southern Cross , and 1977’s Islands. Lynard Skynard may have taken the crown for greatest southern rock band, but for a band full of Canadians and Americans, the Band really embraces a...
Post a Comment
Read more