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In this episode, we had the opportunity to have a conversation with Greta Kline from Frankie Cosmos.

Greta Kline as a Lead vocalist, guitarist, and songwriter Frankie Cosmos, has long been regarded as one of the most insightful and significant lyricists in contemporary indie music. Yet in “Different Talking”, her lyrics soften the sharp cynicism found in previous albums is replaced with an acknowledgment of the brain’s and heart’s profound and inevitable vulnerabilities.

“Different Talking”, the sixth and arguably finest album by New York City indie-rock band Frankie Cosmos, feels as though it arrives through space and time just like all of us. It’s a collection of fragments and memories, remembered places, and reinterpreted feelings, woven together into a bright, vibrating whole: a grounded and powerful indie-rock record about growing up and the passage of time that remains wholly relevant today.

The current lineup of Frankie Cosmos consists of Greta Kline, Alex Bailey, Katie Von Schleicher, and Hugo Stanley. Lyrically, “Different Talking” may be Kline’s most introspective work, while musically, it's Frankie Cosmos’s most diverse and textured album yet—featuring country-style guitar work, glistening synths, and impressive walls of sound.

Kline has been part of the American indie scene since her teenage years, when her prolific Bandcamp releases and her 2014 indie label debut “Zentropy” earned her the nickname “the poet laureate of NYC’s DIY scene.” That’s a heavy title for a teenager, but her unique influence on contemporary pop music is hard to dispute. If it now seems normal to see a young girl playing synths in her bedroom, uploading songs to the internet, and quickly gaining a following—it’s thanks to Kline and a few other artists and writers who celebrated and normalized the idea of DIY (especially female) genius long before it became a marketing trend for major labels.

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