Interstellar

Frankie Rose, “Interstellar” (Slumberland, 2012)
Ms. Rose has been involved with a number of famed neo-garage-punk luminaries, but (as the distributor warned us) this is a 180-degrees departure from that stuff. It’s a sort of electro-pop/indie rock fusion, all immaculately metallic surface sheen and frictionless propulsion. Thing is, it’s also really good; the best songs are dramatic and catchy in a way that owes a lot to the girl-group sound Rose’s old scene drew on, and the music is austere, not slick. The fast ones rock, the slow ones are gorgeous, and the whole thing is growing on me with every listen.
Try 2, 5, 6, 7
2/28/12