Frankie Cosmos’ ‘Close It Quietly’ is a tour de force songwriting binge. Read our review
and Jad Fair; from K Records champs like Tiger Trap and the Softies to anti-folkies like the Moldy Peaches. Songs seem to spill out of Cosmos, built of compact, distracted strumming and her tense, dreamy voice, often clocking in at less then two minutes, as if Kline got an idea, chased it down in real-time and then moved on to the next one, leaving its possibilities fresh and unsolved in our mind, and hers.
“I still like looking out windows,” she sings on “Windows,” the “still” doing solid work in the line, as if she’s taking a hard stand for inspired spacecases everywhere. That kind of revelation might lead to a wan folkie bauble, but the song is taught and tuneful, with drummer Luke Pyenson pushing the beat with elated snare drum tumbles like a cuddle-core Levon Helm, as Klein turns to larger concerns, singing “I want guidance, direction, even for just a second.
“Ring ” appeared earlier this year on a short LP of solo piano pieces by Kline; here it becomes a full-band song with a herky-jerk guitar-drum pattern a la Felt or Orange Juice, the image of a falling tree leading to a nuanced meditation on a marriage barely averted, freighted with bitter memories, yet still full of discovery — accomplishing quite a bit musically and emotionally in just 1:45.
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