Frankie Cosmos – Celebrating 10 Years of Next Thing

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Some records are short on purpose because the feeling they are describing does not last long either. Fifteen songs, twenty-eight minutes, most of them ending before you are ready — that was the trick, and it worked on a specific kind of person who was nineteen and could not say the thing out loud. Ten years later those people are in their thirties and they still know every word, which is going to be audible in this room. Greta Kline put out something like fifty releases to Bandcamp under other names before this album existed, most of them recorded on a laptop in a bedroom, and that history is why the live show still feels handmade rather than staged. The Highland Park venue is a converted Masonic hall with a wooden floor and no barricade, so the front is close and the sound is warm rather than loud. Music at 8:00 PM. Anniversary shows tend to bring out the people who have not been to a show in years, which makes the crowd itself part of what you came for.