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You Must Not Need A Friend

All parts written and performed by yours truly. 
except 
drums by Christina lopez 
Mixed by Jorge Elbrecht

Blue Dreams

After spending nearly two decades establishing herself across New York and Los Angeles independent music circles, Frankie Rose returns with a fresh form, aesthetic, and purpose embodied in her new album "Love As Projection." Celebrated by countless critical and cultural outlets over the years for her expansive approach to songwriting, lush atmospherics, and transcendent vocal melodies and harmonies, "Love As Projection" is a reintroduction of her established style through the new lens of contemporary electronic pop. Featuring beautiful, ethereal songs like lead-off single "Anything," "Sixteen Ways" and "Come Back," this album is more than a rebirth, a refinement, a resurgence – it's a culmination of influence, a newly-defined scope using the tools at her disposal, and the most personal and accessible collection of art-pop that Frankie has delivered yet.

Love As Projection

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Frankie Rose - Anything

Out March 10 2023 on Slumberland Records/Night School Records.

After spending nearly two decades establishing herself across New York and Los Angeles independent music circles, Frankie Rose returns with a fresh form, aesthetic, and purpose embodied in her new album "Love As Projection." Celebrated by countless critical and cultural outlets over the years for her expansive approach to songwriting, lush atmospherics, and transcendent vocal melodies and harmonies, "Love As Projection" is a reintroduction of her iconic style through the new lens of contemporary electronic pop. Featuring beautiful, ethereal songs like lead-off single "Anything," "Sixteen Ways" and "Come Back," this album is more than a rebirth, a refinement, a resurgence – it's a culmination of influence and the most personal and accessible collection of art-pop that Frankie has delivered yet.

Frankie Rose - Sixteen Ways

Book Of Jaws

Hoosi, No!

"Never Had You at All" manages to capture the spirit of Nick Lowe's "Cruel to Be Kind" while still feeling modern and unique.
Madeline Star lyrically paints the agonizing push and pull of a vice – "You can take away my pain, but numb can seem just the same..."
The song is a dichotomy of melancholy themes and uplifting instrumentation pointing toward a light at the end of a tunnel.

Never Had You at All

Moon Boy

I will spin into a tornado 
And destroy what lays in my way
Watching words explode from a volcano 
Catching fire just like Grandma’s hairspray

Do I really wanna tear it all down
What for
Because i’m bored
Or should I slam it on the ground
Bounce up and down in my Docs some more
Like punks on the dance floor

I will turn into a twister 
And blow apart our lovely life
While my mood rubs and blisters
Our slick tongues sharpen their knives

Lava lips always spill secrets 
As warm low key wind whispers quietly
“I really need some help please”

Punks On The Dance Floor

Why scream at people 
Just to let it all out
All the fighting and yelling 
What’s it all about
Kill em all
Rise and fall
It’s not your fault
Ego death kult
Always shit talking
What you on about
Try say nothing
Listen to what it’s about
Close your eyes baby
Let it all out
Sit in silence
And let it all out
Let it all out

PAWS

Ego Death Kult

Music toys with time. Or, maybe songs reflect back that time is always toying with us. The world of a song takes hold of us like an eternity to be lost in, with its repetitions and variations, but ultimately, as with everything else, it has a start and then ends. And there’s no place to lose time like San Francisco, where there are no seasons and all the seasons occur within one day; where the fog takes the space where your plans might have been; where there’s insane wealth all around and everyone you know and love is hanging on at the periphery and making art on any given Tuesday night. About Glenn Donaldson’s new record, "The Town That Cursed Your Name," he says, "I realized as I was piecing it together that it's a song cycle about trying to live while also feeling called to make music." It’s a double life when it works and a deeper doubleness to mirror the Gemini nature of songs themselves. "The Town That Cursed Your Name" contemplates this problem with wryness, generosity, and the micro- and macroscopic realness Donaldson is known and loved for.

Whereas the 2022 collection "Summer at Land's End" was a softer, gauzier world, "The Town That Cursed Your Name" is heavier, with fuzzed lines running through. "Leave It All Behind" starts out with an amorphous whine but quickly launches into something both supremely melodic and buzzing at the edges. "Here Comes the Lunar Hand" is an impressionist geometry that seems to capture the album’s themes without telling you how. Lyrically, Donaldson embraces the earnestness of his heroes Paul Westerberg and Grant McLennan. Sonically, late '80s college rock is filtered through song-forward lo-fi acts like East River Pipe and House of Tomorrow-era Magnetic Fields. Like the images that accompany his releases – flowers and residential street scenes are pushed to the breaking point with color – Donaldson’s songs are at the same time dazzling and lurid, beautiful and burdened, not unlike life as a musician around here.

In the liner notes, Donaldson dedicates the record "to everyone who ever tried to start a band in the Bay." There will be many knowing smiles at his title "Too Late For An Early Grave." But, this dedication captures something else about the particular strain of sincerity that laces the city water supply – the front man around here is on stage under those lights evincing the fervor not of the pop star but of the biggest fan.

-Karina Gill

The Town That Cursed Your Name

The Reds, Pinks & Purples - Life in the Void

The Reds, Pinks & Purples - Too Late for an Early Grave

1st Single Off The Upcoming Record "Artichoke" 
Out 4/28/23 on Plume Records

Brian Noyes: Vocals, Guitars, Piano, Moog
Jake Brady: Guitars, Percussion
Dillon Sturtevant: Slide Guitar, Bass Vocals
Bryan Appleby: Drums, Vocals, Harmonica

Engineered & Mixed by Nicholas Wilbur at 
The Unknown - Anacortes, WA
Mastered by Carl Saff / Saff Mastering - Chicago, IL
Produced by Tomten & Nicholas Wilbur
Written by Brian Noyes

Grapefruit Sea

Bicycle

Buddy Holly

Nashville, Again

You define what you witness
One sees black, the other gold
But you’re blindly religious
Stick to the only side you know

So if you ask me, I see what I see
Maybe it’s just part of the whole
Though it may not seem
Like we’re in the same stream,
We’re caught in the same undertow

We might not have planned on it
But it’s all we have, it’s what we get
So why hold on to what might have been
When we all play a part in this tragicomedy

Boundaries start to bend, 
We all depend on another in the end
Give up, start again, when doubts creep in
There wisdom can begin

To wash away the lines in the sand
Like a summer rain
And I can’t understand, but somehow I know
When the plot unfolds, that we’ll be alright
When the curtains fall

We might not have planned on it
But it’s all we have, it’s what we get
So why hold on to what might have been
When we all play a part in this tragicomedy

Tragicomedy

Squeeze out everything you can find
Operate the discourse of my mind
Operate the culture in turn
Occupy the feelings inside

I know I’m a beautiful child
I see your a daughter of god
I spend my life working the straight line
I life time to see yourself in real time

Squeeze out everything you can find
Operate the discourse of my mind
Operate the culture in turn
Occupy the feelings inside

I know I’m a beautiful child
I see your a daughter of god
I spend my life working the straight line
I life time to see yourself in real time

Operation

Dillon Sturtevant: Vocals, Guitars
Brian Noyes: Bass, Organ, Mellotron Vocals
Jake Brady: Drums, Percussion
Bryan Appleby: Vocals

Engineered & Mixed by Nicolas Wilbur
The Unknown, Anacortes WA 
Mastered by Carl Saff / Saff Mastering Chicago, IL

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