Vessel
On Greta Kline’s third official album, pure love, self-loathing, and taxidermied dogs all find their way into her dazzling world of perennially inspired indie pop.
The Vaccines find a familiar groove on the exuberant Combat Sports, while The Voidz are painfully misguided on the parody-ready Virtue, and, by contrast, Jean Grae & Quelle Chris’ Everything’s Fine crackles with fury and frustration. These, plus Czarface & MF Doom and Frankie Cosmos in this week’s notable new releases.
On their Sub Pop debut, Frankie Cosmos deliver more of the observational, tender songs they have built up a reputation for.
Our writers take a look at this week's releases, from the wide-eyed country pop of Kacey Musgraves on 'Golden Hour' to the bare, anti-folk stylings of Mount Eerie on 'Now Only'
While Frankie Cosmos architect Greta Kline had been touring with a backing band and recording with guest musicians for a few years before tracking 2018's Vessel, it's her first album to be released officially as a band.
On Vessel, Frankie Cosmos's third studio album (and 52nd release overall, if you include the project's bountiful Bandcamp discography), Gret...
Greta Kline's musical persona Frankie Cosmos represents the friend you go to for comfort and reassurance; you know she empathizes with all of your highs and lows and has this way of drawing from them the basic existential observations that make you smile
In the time it’s taken you to read this review, Frankie Cosmos will probably have written and recorded an entire album.
'Vessel' by Frankie Cosmos: Frankie Cosmos lands the swan dive in our review of 'Vessel'