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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…

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Frankie Cosmos


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