- Record Label: Memphis Industries
- Release Date: Sep 21, 2010
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Frankie Rose and the Outs grants her the right to carry on doing as she pleases. As Lady Gaga comes across as a glorious car crash with her incessant costume change homages, Frankie similarly deserves the right to chop and change between band and styles. For as she chews music up and spits it out, she makes a beautiful mess.
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For a record just 30 minutes long it feels impossibly epic and for all its scuzzy, lo-fi production, it still sounds fully realised. Not to mention fully brilliant.
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Frankie Rose and the Outs have made a record that put her old band the Vivian Girls to shame, and instead of proving to be bandwagon jumpers, they instead made a record other girl pop bands can emulate and someday hope to equal.
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It's hard to deny the simple, joyful throb of this half-hour treat, and Rose has an unusual weapon she's willing to use early and often – harmonies of massed voices, whose affectless trilling lends the buzzing and twanging guitars an oddly liturgical taste.
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For a record this simple and, even at its punchiest, seductively serene, it might seem far-fetched to compliment it for being daring. But considering its own orbit--and her eschewing lo-fi recording techniques--Rose cuts right to the chase, making lean, elegant music that practically glows in the face of exceptional fuss.
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Entirely derivative but somehow not obvious, the record is surprisingly--and pleasantly--strange.
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With Frankie Rose and The Outs, her first self-accredited rock music excursion, Rose predictably weaves femininity and cherubic harmonics with garage rock, resulting in a pretty, albeit somewhat tired, retreading of familiar waters.
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On this album she proves herself as something more (way more, in fact) than an eternal scenester and competent drummer.