Frankie Rose - Interstellar (2012)

I will go then! And possibly buy a grey tie-dye t-shirt! She is opening for White Lies, who I haven't really listened to but their description sounds interesting. Or at least up my street.

Not to go neg on this thread because I love Frankie Rose, but don't get your hopes up for White Lies. You know the whole thing about further and further Xerox copies getting worse and worse? That's White Lies, who are already like a couple copies removed from Interpol.

I worded that terribly, but much like Interpol was a very faded copy of Joy Division, White Lies is a very faded copy of the copy of Interpol (I forget who that intermediate step was now though).

jvc2 is otm

LOL @ Interpol just turning up on this thread & I didn't even raise them!

p.s. Interpol don't even sound like Joy Division, gtfo (oh fuck when did I become an *actual* Interpol fangril what even is my life)

Oh I know they don't really, just trying to set up the "watered down post-punk" false equivalency thing to explain how boring and tepid White Lies is.

Interpol don't even sound like Joy Division

they did, on the first album.

*breaks into manic, slightly hysterical laughter*

Dude, I have listened to that first album more times than is either sane or reasonable this week. Really, it does not sound like Joy Division. But let's drop it, please.

no worries.

hahaha, I will not get my hopes up then. The alternative is going with a friend to see Sebadoh, and I really do not want to do that.

Frankie Rose was really good! They sounded great and she has a sort of E.G. Daily presence and I swooned a little. I have to get up early tomorrow, so I didn't even stick around for White Lies.

also very pleased with not only a damned cover, but one from phantasmagoria!

Actually, ha, you remind me, sometimes seeing only the support band is good if you want an early night. That Damned cover sounds so good on the album.

Did you see these black tie-dye t-shirts?

yeah, I was in and out in about an hour! they had a sort of grey tie-dye patterned shirt with the new album cover printed on the front of it? I got a black moon calendar one since they were only $10 and I want them to make some money.

my head said to get the lunar calendar on solid black but my heart said tie-dye

also i was wearing a pretty loud shirt and frankie said "you look like a guy who can handle tie-dye" and i am pretty sure i blushed, i was so smitten

You guys are so cuet with your Frankie-smit.

she was wearing a robert smith t-shirt! not a cure t-shirt, but robert smith! that is adorable. I chose black moon because if most of my band t-shirts are black, it keeps casual acquaintances from realizing how many I really have.

Are we into this song by her new band Beverly? I am.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CXh8Utm7aJU

JF are you in to AVAN LAVA?

Drew Citron (who plays w/ Frankie and is the frontwoman in Beverly) is in them and i still don't get shambahala but i feel like its your style

I heard some early Avan Lava (three or so years ago), but nothing since. I will investigate.

Hmmm, not really feeling Beverly. It's just kinda flatly produced and garagey, when what I liked about Frankie Rose was the sparkley and ~space~ of it. This could be one of a million other Girls In The Garage type bands.

I dunno. I like that it's got such a chunky riff with the airy melodies/harmonies still on top of it.

i'm into this single. is this a one-off project, or will a beverly album or ep follow?

It reminds of 90s Simple Machine bands

er, Simple Machines

Misread that as "Secret Machines" for a second and my heart skipped a beat...

There's a Beverly album in the works for sometime this year.

beverly is drew's thing, frankie just plays in it. the way drew plays in frankie's solo thing

Oh, those wacky incestuous bands!

Yeah, it seems like two sides of a coin.

I wonder if they'd start a third band...with me in it!

No way, man. I'm first in the queue!

this song is on a loop for me now. it's fantastic, for exactly the reasons dr. fever set forth above, see, e.g., Sect. II(B).

It's on spotify, so I just hit play and set it to repeat. I think I've gone about 10 times in a row at present.

I'm not really feeling it, but listening to the new Frankie Rose did make me give the new Dum Dum Girls album a spin, and I quite like that.

Listening to the Beverly album now & am feeling it so far.

What was the song that JF posted?

waht is the beverly connection to FR? i have been enjoying it too

xp Oh, I am guessing it was "Honey Do"?

Beverly = Drew Citron + Frankie Rose. But:

beverly is drew's thing, frankie just plays in it. the way drew plays in frankie's solo thing

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beverly is drew's thing, frankie just plays in it. the way drew plays in frankie's solo thing

You wouldn't know that from how the album gets capsuled in the press, which is a total shame.

"Honey Do" is still one of my favorite singles of the year.

New album coming next month.

https://www.agreymarket.com/collections/new-releases/products/frankie-rose-cage-tropical-lp-limited-edition-white-gold-splatter-pre-order

Can't believe it's already been four years since Herein Wild. That was a great album.

Indeed, unjustly maligned upon release. Looking forward to the new one! Ordered through your link, thanks.

looking forward to this, new song is pretty groovy. hope she comes to austin and plays again, it was a fun little show last time dragged down by a shitty venue

also I am crushing on her ongoing commitment to splatter vinyl releases which are beautiful

The new album definitely isn't as instant as the last two.

Anyone else heard it yet?

I've listened to it three or four times -- none of it has made an impression yet, but will give it time. I've only been playing it on my morning train commute, which it doesn't seem suited for. I've got it on now and am liking "Trouble" but already can't even remember what the song before sounded like. "Art Bell" on now and I don't much care for it.

Yeah, I'm on my fifth listen now and nothing has really made any impression yet. I'm really disappointed.

I'm just listening to it for the first time now. I don't know if I'll have any takeaways, but it sure is a glorious sound.

i think it's good

as good as interstellar? prob not, but it's very early and that's a very high bar

Just digging into this, liking it so far, less rock than the other two, more of an 80s throwback sound. First song sounds like Cocteau Twins, second like "A Forest", etc.