Next Thing

AlbumApr 01 / 201615 songs, 28m 35s
Twee Pop Bedroom Pop Indie Pop
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Indie-pop miniaturist Frankie Cosmos makes music like minimal sculpture or haiku: radically simple but deceptively complicated at the same time. Her second studio album, *Next Thing*, is by turns tender and funny, innocent and wise, often within the space of the same brief line. (Take this one, from “Fool”: “Once I was happy, you found it intriguing/Then you got to me and left me bleeding.”) And though her songs are brief and the arrangements simple, the album feels surprisingly complete—the product of someone who knows exactly what they want to say and doesn’t waste time with one word more.

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Frankie Cosmos is the low-key indie pop project of Greta Kline. Her greatest talent is her ability to transform short songs into experiences that resemble hours of impressionistic conversation.

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Frankie Cosmos cuts to the quick at her own expense - she knows it, and you can’t help but respect such candour.

Check out our album review of Artist's Next Thing on Rolling Stone.com.

Laying everything on the line, Frankie Cosmos scrutinise every ounce of who they are and what they know.

A prolific songwriter and self-recording uploader of dozens of song collections in her teens, Greta Kline began using the alias Frankie Cosmos before releasing her first studio album, Zentropy, at age 19.

'I’m 20, washed up already,' sings Frankie Cosmos on the appositely titled I’m 20, in what may just be the most misleading lyric of the year.

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On 2014's Zentropy, New York songwriter Frankie Cosmos (aka Greta Kline) brought her cozy, poignant pop nuggets out of the bedroom — literal...

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Flying the twee flag is perhaps a young person's game, and Frankie Cosmos continues to play it like, say, an extremely spry Robert Pollard-prolifically and without much of a filter, her catalog now stacking band-and-studio recordings atop dozens of bedroo

8 / 10

There’s something strikingly immediate about the work of a writer with a knack for injecting existential weight into the humdrum moments that

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