Artist:
Frankie Cosmos
Genre:
Pop/Rock
Alternative/Indie Rock
Indie Pop
Total Time:
37:46
Record Label:
Sub Pop
Stream or Buy:
CD, Amazon Music, Vinyl, Apple Music, Spotify
Release Date
June 27, 2025
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Frankie Cosmos
Genre:
Pop/Rock
Alternative/Indie Rock
Indie Pop
Total Time:
37:46
Record Label:
Sub Pop
Stream or Buy:
CD, Amazon Music, Vinyl, Apple Music, Spotify
Release Date
June 27, 2025
"The Entertainment Factor is supported by its audience. When you buy through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission."
Find out more about this album release after the jump.
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Product Description: 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 lush 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. "A lot of the album is about being grown up and figuring out how to know yourself - like, 'What is moving on?'" says Kline.
"How do we move on when we're addicted to a cycle of haunting our own past? Writing songs is just the way through that."Kline has been a fixture of the American indie underground since her late teens when her prolific Bandcamp releases and 2014 indie-label debut Zentropy led her to be dubbed "the poet laureate of New York City DIY." 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 young woman picking up a synth in her bedroom, putting a couple of songs on the internet, and quickly becoming a superstar is now de rigeur, it's because Kline and her peers normalized and exalted (female) DIY genius long before they were pinned to moodboards in major-label marketing offices.
A lot has changed since then: after going through a handful of different permutations over the past decade, Frankie Cosmos is now a four-piece featuring Kline, Alex Bailey, Katie Von Schleicher, and Hugo Stanley. Kline is the only constant, but Stanley, Bailey, and Von Schleicher are crucial collaborators, and to use the names "Greta Kline" and "Frankie Cosmos" interchangeably would be incorrect. Kline remains the primary songwriter, and the music on Different Talking is arranged by the band as a whole, but this is the first album to be self-tracked and self-produced by the band. Not coincidentally, it feels like a purer, more distilled take.
"It does feel like the best version of what I've wanted to make since I was a teenager," says Kline. "Although this was recorded in a living room, it's as high fidelity as anything we've made in the studio."
To classify Different Talking as a return to form, or at least a return to the lush 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. "A lot of the album is about being grown up and figuring out how to know yourself - like, 'What is moving on?'" says Kline.
"How do we move on when we're addicted to a cycle of haunting our own past? Writing songs is just the way through that."Kline has been a fixture of the American indie underground since her late teens when her prolific Bandcamp releases and 2014 indie-label debut Zentropy led her to be dubbed "the poet laureate of New York City DIY." 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 young woman picking up a synth in her bedroom, putting a couple of songs on the internet, and quickly becoming a superstar is now de rigeur, it's because Kline and her peers normalized and exalted (female) DIY genius long before they were pinned to moodboards in major-label marketing offices.
A lot has changed since then: after going through a handful of different permutations over the past decade, Frankie Cosmos is now a four-piece featuring Kline, Alex Bailey, Katie Von Schleicher, and Hugo Stanley. Kline is the only constant, but Stanley, Bailey, and Von Schleicher are crucial collaborators, and to use the names "Greta Kline" and "Frankie Cosmos" interchangeably would be incorrect. Kline remains the primary songwriter, and the music on Different Talking is arranged by the band as a whole, but this is the first album to be self-tracked and self-produced by the band. Not coincidentally, it feels like a purer, more distilled take.
"It does feel like the best version of what I've wanted to make since I was a teenager," says Kline. "Although this was recorded in a living room, it's as high fidelity as anything we've made in the studio."
TRACK LIST:
1 .Pressed Flower
(01:58)
2 . One of Each (01:56)
3 . Against the Grain (02:25)
4 . Bitch Heart (02:25)
5 . Porcelain (02:43)
6 . One! Grey! Hair! (02:01)
7 . Vanity (02:33)
8 . Not Long (01:36)
9 . Margareta (02:08)
10 . Your Take On (02:00)
11 . High Five Handshake (02:47)
12 . You Become (02:46)
13 . Joyride (02:27)
14 . Tomorrow (02:28)
15 . Wonderland (02:06)
16 . Life Back (01:38)
17 . Pothole (01:56)
2 . One of Each (01:56)
3 . Against the Grain (02:25)
4 . Bitch Heart (02:25)
5 . Porcelain (02:43)
6 . One! Grey! Hair! (02:01)
7 . Vanity (02:33)
8 . Not Long (01:36)
9 . Margareta (02:08)
10 . Your Take On (02:00)
11 . High Five Handshake (02:47)
12 . You Become (02:46)
13 . Joyride (02:27)
14 . Tomorrow (02:28)
15 . Wonderland (02:06)
16 . Life Back (01:38)
17 . Pothole (01:56)
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