Love as projection

"An accomplished return for Rose, who has crafted an album brimming with iridescent beauty that shimmers across a meticulously crafted dream pop soundscape".

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"Frankie Rose's personalized brand of sharp-cornered pop shines through no matter what form her music takes ... Rose goes all in on electronic pop with her fourth solo effort, Love as Projection. Opening track "Sixteen Ways" serves as a no-nonsense introduction to her new approach, with a dense instrumentation heavy on swelling bass synths, fluttering melodic keyboard arpeggios, and brittle but beautiful vocal harmonies. There are some guitars in the mix, but they're relegated to the background to make space for Rose's futuristic sounds to unfurl ... The lush synths and bubbling beats carry the same wild dreaminess she achieved on songs where she was covering D.I.Y. rock songs in sheets of reverb, and it's more Rose's exacting and specific songwriting design than the instrumentation that makes Love as Projection feel so wonderfully strange, secret-keeping, and exciting".

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"A former member of indie-rock outfits Crystal Stilts, Vivian Girls and Dum Dum Girls (...), Rose has been crafting lush, '80s-indebted solo albums for the better part of the last decade. Her newest pushes the format to its fullest form, wrapping expansive and intricate interpretations of the decade's sonic touchstones - synth washes, gated drums, pulsating beats, guitar jangle and romantic vocals - into tidy three- and four-minute packages".