Frankie Cosmos, “Fit Me In.” Image from the artist’s Bandcamp.
At just four songs, Greta Kline’s latest as Frankie Cosmos is just right. Any longer and it would have been too much. “Fit Me In” only requires that you make eight minutes to do just that, like a friend who’s calling just to get something off her chest.
Kline doesn’t ever fully reveal herself, though. Poetics sometime obscure raw feeling, as does her winking self-depreciation in lyrics like, “With this I’m scraping by / At least it’s cute that I try / I wrote some songs that I sung / And have you heard I am so young?” Itap within the same short EP, though, that she sings, “No need for a retest / I know I’m a genius.” She’s not so shy, really, and this handful of songs does get at the simple realities of love.
The quality of “Fit Me In” suits that tone. It’s not quite like her old bedroom recordings, but the gentle drum machines and synthesizers have a homemade flavor. Itap a new sound for the 21-year-old artist, but has the effect of comfort food nonetheless.
, “I wasn’t even thinking about releasing this kind of music. I just viewed it as a one-off thing, like, ‘Ha-ha, we made a song that’s really poppy and weird!’” Itap a capricious way to make music or think about your career, but itap working for her.
