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‘Different Talking’, the project’s sixth album, finds Kline’s lyrics softening slightly, the wry cynicism of past records giving way to an acknowledgment of the fallibility of the human brain and heart.
Musically, it’s the most varied and richly textured Frankie Cosmos album, filled with country-fried noodling, tassels of synth, and imposing walls of sound. 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. 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.”
Tracklisting:
- Pressed Flower
- One of Each
- Against the Grain
- Bitch Heart
- Porcelain
- One! Grey! Hair!
- Vanity
- Not Long
- Margareta
- Your Take On
- High Five Handshake
- You Become
- Joyride
- Tomorrow
- Wonderland
- Life Back
- Pothole
