FRANKIE ROSE - INTERSTELLER (LP)

Frankie Rose Intersteller on LP

Frankie Rose's sophomore full-length, Interstellar is a revelation, an album that floats free of its maker’s history, which includes time spent with the Vivian Girls, Dum Dum Girls and Crystal Stilts, and offers the listener something strangely other, as alien as it is familiar, as compelling as it is enchanting. Featuring production by remixer supreme Le Chev (Lemonade, Narcisse, Passion Pit), it's readily apparent Rose has no interest in resting on her laurels here.

Gone is reverb as the holy route to pop-grandeur, scaling a wall of teenage tears, and in its place is the confident swagger of a singer and auteur building the simplest of pop moves into aching, full-blown melodramas, grabbing hold of an emotion and riding its darker waves.

“Had We Had It” spins the sweetest sugar from chords that ascend into the firmament, a heavenly, palatial blur. “Gospel/Grace” rumbles with passion, a New Order-esque one-finger guitar figure leading the listener into the depths mapped by the chorus. “Apples for the Sun” is breathtaking, with Rose singing out across a lone piano, before a glorious web of voice and organ pirouettes. The heartbreaking closer “The Fall,” finally takes the listener out to sea on a lunar-aquatic cello riff that’s pure Arthur Russell. A lot of Interstellar seems to be about disappearing into, or finding and reveling in, this kind of imaginary zone, something Rose confirms: “The whole record is about dreaming of some ‘other’ place.”

Frankie Rose Intersteller Track Listing:

1.  Interstellar
2.  Know Me
3.  Gospel/Grace
4.  Daylight Sky
5.  Pair of Wings
6.  Had We Had It
7.  Night Swim
8.  Apples for the Sun
9.  Moon in My Mind
10. The Fall