Frankie Cosmos Announce New Album 'Inner World Peace'

Photo: Pooneh Ghana

Frankie Cosmos have announced their fifth album.

'Inner World Peace', the follow-up to 2019's 'Close It Quietly', will arrive on October 21 through Sub Pop. It was co-produced by the band with Nate Mendelsohn and Katie Von Schleicher at Figure 8 Recording in Brooklyn, New York.

Alongside the album news, the Brooklyn quartet have shared a video for cut One Year Stand, an enchanting indie-rock track. It was directed by friend of the band Eliza Lu Doyle, who said:

“We conceived of the setting for the video as a cross between a diorama and an empty arena stage. To me, the interaction between Greta and the camera is almost like an act of faith — a reach toward an absent audience. We wanted to channel the pleasure of half-performing for that imaginary gaze.” 

Frankie Cosmos' Greta Kline does an interpretive dance in the video. She added:

"This music video was created with my best friend Eliza, who makes video and performance art. It feels like an encapsulation of the record in that it’s strange and vast while also being contained and interior. Clowning and playing are a huge part of collaborating for me and Eliza. We wanted to perform a dance without dancing — the kind of movements you fall into in private, banal moments, playing without even realizing. Choreographing together felt like we were in 6th grade again, all id and giggles. The album and the video were made in these environments of love and pleasure.”

Check out the clip below, alongside the album's tracklist and artwork by the band's Lauren Martin.

Frankie Cosmos will play an album release show in New York on October 7 at Knockdown Center’s The Ruins. Hannah Jadagu and Ian Sweet will open.

'Inner World Peace' tracklist:

1. Abigail
2. Aftershook
3. Fruit Stand
4. Magnetic Personality
5. Wayne
6. Sky Magnet
7. A Work Call
8. Empty Head
9. Fragments
10. Prolonging Babyhood
11. One Year Stand
12. F.O.O.F.
13. Street View
14. Spare the Guitar
15. Heed the Call

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