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Feb 21, 2012It's an honest record, stripped of artifice, and it will hit you hard if you give it a chance.
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Mar 26, 2012Her songwriting is not greatly altered: tunes most often travel at an energetic tempo, with melodies shining through the thickly applied reverb and helping the likes of Know Me to soar. The presentation, however, recalls the Cocteau Twins during the album's most abstract moments.
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Feb 21, 2012It's big, open, cavernous, so much so that it feels like it could swallow you entirely, and so you let it because it's comforting, warm, and safe.
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Mar 5, 2012A progressive dance-pop album that, maybe because of her background, feels a heck of a lot hipper than what her new genre counterparts can offer.
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Feb 21, 2012A major step forward, this new album sounds nothing like the work of her peers.
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Mar 13, 2012It's a gorgeous example of an album bursting with huge, dreamy songs.
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Feb 28, 2012Like the cosmos itself, Interstellar is a grower.
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Mar 5, 2012Frankie's doesn't bear the weight of an obviously solo effort and at once succeeds in creating music that rivals any full-band effort from any of her peers.
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Feb 21, 2012Interstellar may not bring something wholly original or novel to the already crowded scene of like-minded, nostalgic, ethereal pop acts, but its 32 minutes are simply too sublimely crafted to ignore.
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Mar 7, 2012Interstellar may not be the most enterprising album released this year, but there won't likely be another one that so cogently captures the celestial side of an era [the 80's] known for its excesses.
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Mar 19, 2012The inevitable result is a crisper, more polished sound.
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Apr 2, 2012Although not quite out of this world as its title suggests, Interstellar represents a haughty development in Frankie Rose's artistic capabilities.
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Feb 21, 2012Though not the punchy, great leap forward it could have been, Rose finally proves that she's far more than just a part of her former groups.
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MagnetMar 20, 2012Fans will love her subtlety and clean new sound, but someone just coming on board might not find this an essential listen. [No. 85, p.59]
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MojoApr 20, 2012This time out, the melodic knack is as assured and the tumbling songs recognisably hers, but she's found her own path. [May 2012, p.87]
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Mar 22, 2012It is no doubt a big risk leaving behind many aspects of the sound that made her name but on Interstellar, she advances her sound so expertly and compellingly that it is a risk that was well worth taking.
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Feb 21, 2012On Interstellar, she transports us further and takes us higher than she ever could have as the drummer of an indie pop revivalist band.
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Apr 24, 2012It may have a foot in the past, but the hooks and energy are timeless, and Rose is an immediate and striking voice in pop music right now.
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Feb 27, 2012While the unabashed pop moments on Interstellar are truly great and welcome, Rose easily proves she's capable of more daring things.
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Feb 29, 2012It's not about to break any new ground, but her attractively elegant mixture of dream pop, post-punk and luxurious atmospherics are a hard combination to resist.
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Mar 21, 2012Interstellar succeeds in expertly appropriating its forebears instead of regurgitating them.
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Feb 21, 2012While Interstellar presents Rose's music in a shiny, seductive new package, the contents remain similarly ephemeral.
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Mar 16, 2012A refreshingly innovative take on the decade [the 80's], and though it occasionally lacks a little heart, 'Interstellar' at least pushes Rose's talents in an impressive and unexpected direction.
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Mar 15, 2012Interstellar is a pretty irresistible record.
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Mar 15, 2012It's Rose's harmonies that make the album special: warm and breathy, they seem to sidle gently into position, rather than cut with razor precision.
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Mar 19, 2012A record to get lost in.
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Mar 26, 2012Interstellar easily contains enough beauty to confirm that Frankie Rose is more than just the buzz-scene she once helped create and should provide lift-off into all manner of new sonic territories.
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UncutMar 14, 2012Think Veronica Falls meet Arthur Russell, and investigate further. [Apr 2012, p.83]
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Feb 21, 2012It's Rose's crowning achievement to date, a gorgeously impressionistic album that's a quantum artistic leap forward for this exceptionally talented songwriter.
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Apr 26, 2012