Last we heard from Frankie Cosmos was 2019's Close It Quietly. Today, they announced their fifth album Inner World Peace—out October 21 via Sub Pop—with the single "One Year Stand." The track comes with a video by video and performance artist Eliza Lu Doyle, where Frankie Cosmos’ Greta Kline and Alex Bailey interpretive dance.
“We conceived of the setting for the video as a cross between a diorama and an empty arena stage," Lu Doyle said. "To me, the interaction between Greta and the camera is almost like an act of faith—a reach toward an absent audience. We wanted to channel the pleasure of half-performing for that imaginary gaze.”
"It feels like an encapsulation of the record in that it’s strange and vast while also being contained and interior," Kline added of the video. "Clowning and playing are a huge part of collaborating for me and Eliza. We wanted to perform a dance without dancing—the kind of movements you fall into in private, banal moments, playing without even realizing. Choreographing together felt like we were in 6th grade again, all id and giggles. The album and the video were made in these environments of love and pleasure.”
Inner World Peace was co-produced by the band, Nate Mendelsohn, and Katie Von Schleicher at Figure 8 Recording in Brooklyn. It was mixed by Mendelsohn and Von Schleicher, and mastered by Josh Bonati. “To me, the album is about perception," Kline said. "It’s about the question of 'who am I?' and whether or not the answer matters. It’s about quantum time, the possibilities of invisible worlds. The album is about finding myself floating in a new context. A teenager again, living with my parents. An adult, choosing to live with my family in an act of love. Time propelled us forward, aged us, and also froze. If you don’t leave the house, who are you to the world? Can you take the person you discover there out with you?”
Watch the video for "One Year Stand" below, and pre-order Inner World Peace here.
