Frankie Cosmos' BandCamp treasure chest

We pick out five of our favourite tracks from the extensive Frankie Cosmos BandCamp back catalogue...

Feature by Katie Hawthorne | 29 Aug 2016

Over 51 Bandcamp albums Greta Kline records her world with microscopic detail; stay a while, and you'll be introduced to her family, friends, pets and daily daydreams, as well as her familiar, poetic precision. Enjoy weird snippets that last less than a minute, exemplary Microsoft Paint-style illustration skills and the opportunity to trace Frankie Cosmos growing in ambition. Sketchy bedroom demos from 2011 become full-band recordings in 2016 – and even now that the world's reading her diary, Kline hasn't lost a single ounce of intimacy. Try five of our favourite songs:

cryb aby (much ado about fucking, 2012)

Through the lowest of lo-fi recordings, a guitar strums 49 seconds of the most concise teenage doubt you'll ever hear: 'I hate my body, I hate myself / Cry baby, can't someone help?'

ronnie ronaldo! (im sorry im hi lets go, 2013)

'If your butt touched my butt [...] would you think it was cool?' sings Kline, over sorrowful, elegiac keys. In 12 words she captures that exact moment when your stomach drops and you realise you've fallen way, way too hard for someone. 

pov of toothbrush (quick songs, 2014)

This album's described simply: "some friends and I decided to make a song every day for a week." One such result is this weirdly heartbreaking bathroom ballad from the perspective of a lovelorn toothbrush: 'I only see you twice a day now / and then I go straight into her mouth.'

embody (affirms glinting, 2014)

Embody gets the full studio treatment on 2016's Next Thing, but here it exists in wobbly, brittle, joyful form. Kline describes a single perfect moment: 'It's Sunday night, and my friends are friends with my friends.'

Dancing In The Public Eye (Zentropy, 2014)

The introduction of capital letters celebrate the release of Frankie Cosmos' official debut. 'My ass is made of velvet and my hips are made of stone' should be everyone's pre-night-out mirror mantra. 

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