Frankie Rose

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FRANKIE ROSE

As suggested by its sleek op-art sleeve and future-shocked title, Interstellar, Rose’s next album is as welcome as departures get: an icy blend of buffered beats, cascading chords and steely synths. Don’t expect an electro album, however, more like what happens when an indie rock vet spends an extended period of time alongside a proper producer – Fischerspooner collaborator Le Chev.

In other words, if Rose wanted synth lines pulled from the same Kraut-y cosmos as Vangelis and Klaus Schulze, a soundtrack-y slice of Enya or a bass line to sound like the Cure’s Seventeen Seconds, it wasn’t a question of “How?” so much as “When do you want to get started?”

“It’s been exciting finding out what’s possible,” says Rose. “If I can make something sound huge or epic, why wouldn’t I?”

Here’s the deal then: aside from a fall tour with Dirty Beaches, Rose plans on putting 12-hour days in at the studio until her widescreen opus is completed for an early 2012 release.

“Often this album is the scene in the film when the main character is reunited with his lost love, or perhaps like a visit to another planet,“ explains Rose. “I want every song to be like some kind of pop song cinematic adventure.”


DIVE

DIVE is the nom-de-plume of Z. Cole Smith, musical provocateur and front-man of an atmospheric and autumnally-charged new Brooklyn four-piece.

Recently inked to the uber-reliable Captured Tracks imprint, DIVE created instant vibrations in the blog-world with their impressionistic debut Sometime; finding it’s way onto the esteemed pages of Pitchfork and Altered Zones a mere matter of weeks after the group’s formation.

Enlisting the aid of NYC indie-scene-luminary, Devin Ruben Perez, former Smith Westerns drummer Colby Hewitt, and Mr. Smith’s childhood friend Andrew Bailey, DIVE craft a sound that is at once familial and frost-bitten. Indebted to classic kraut, dreamy Creation-records psychedelia, and the primitive-crunch of late-80’s Seattle, the band walk a divisive yet perfectly fused patch of classic-underground influence.