Frankie Cosmos - Vessel - VINYL LP

Vinyl LP pressing. Close It Quietly is a continual reframing of the known. It's like giving yourself a haircut or rearranging your room. You know your hair. You know your room. Here's the same hair, the same room, seen again as something new. Close It Quietly takes the trademark Frankie Cosmos micro-universe and upends it, spilling outwards into a swirl of referentiality that's a marked departure from earlier releases, imagining and reimagining motifs and sounds throughout the album. The band's fourth studio is a manifestation of their collaborative spirit Greta Kline and longtime bandmates Lauren Martin (synth), Luke Pyenson (drums), and Alex Bailey (bass) luxuriated in studio time with Gabe Wax, who engineered and co-produced the record with the band.

Limited Loser Edition on red vinyl. Different Talking, the sixth and, so far, best album by NYC indie-rock four-piece Frankie Cosmos, seems to exist across time and space, as we all kind of 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' lead singer, guitarist, and songwriter Greta Kline has long been heralded as one of contemporary indie music's most deft and most necessary writers, but on Different Talking, her lyrics soften out slightly, the wry cynicism that defined recent records now giving way to an acknowledgment of the awesome, and necessary, fallibility of the human brain and heart.To classify Different Talking as a return to form, or at least a return to the rich directness of earlier Frankie Cosmos records, would be rude but also wholly incorrect as Different Talking makes clear, you can never return to the comfort and bravery of your early twenties, but that person always kind of lives inside you, no matter how much you change. Different Talking is about finding that person, honoring them, and learning from them. InchA lot of the album is about being grown up and figuring out how to know yourself - like, 'What is moving on?'Inch says Kline. InchHow do we move on when we're addicted to a cycle of haunting our own past? Writing songs is just the way through that.InchKline has been a fixture of the American indie underground since her late teens when her prolific Bandcamp releases and 2014 indie-tag debut Zentropy led her to be dubbed Inchthe poet laureate of New York City DIY.Inch A tag like that is a lot for young shoulders to take on, but it's hard to deny the singular influence she has had on contemporary pop music. If the idea of a

Several things happened before a warm day when I met the four members of Frankie Cosmos in a Brooklyn studio to begin making their album. Greta Kline spent a few years living with her family and writing a mere 100 songs, turning her empathy anywhere from the navel to the moon, rendering it all warm, close and reflexively humorous. In music, everyone loves a teen sensation, but Kline has never been more fascinating than now, a decade into being one of the most prolific songwriters of her generation. She's lodged in my mind amongst authors, other observational alchemists like Rachel Cusk or Sheila Heti, but she's funnier, which is a charm endemic to musicians. Meanwhile Frankie Cosmos, a rare, dwindling democratic entity called a band, had been on pandemic hiatus with no idea if they'd continue. In the openness of that uncertainty they met up, planning to hang out and play music together for the first time in nearly 500 days. There, whittling down the multitude of music to work with, they created Inner World Peace, a collection of Greta's songs changed and sculpted by their time together. While Kline's musical taste at the time was leaning toward aughts indie rock she'd loved as a teenager, keyboardist Lauren Martin and drummer Luke Pyenson cite Inchdroning, meditation, repetition, clarity and intentionality,Inch as well as Inch'70s folk and popInch as a reference for how they approached their parts. Bassist/guitarist Alex Bailey says that at the time he referred to it as their InchambientInch or InchpsychInch album. Somewhere between those textural elements and Kline's penchant for concise pop, Inner World Peace finds it's balance. The first order of business upon setting up camp in Brooklyn's Figure 8 studios was to project giant colorful slides the band had made for each track. Co-producing with Nate Mendelsohn, my Shitty Hits Recording partner, we aimed for FC's aes