Description:	7" on Slumberland from ex-Vivian Girls dudette
	Format:	7" (vinyl)
	Genre(s):	Indie Rock
	Label:	Slumberland
	Price:	£4.49
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...according to our Brett on 15 October 2009.

Frankie Rose used to be in the Vivian Girls but then she left and joined Crystal Stilts and then she went solo and then she released a solo 7" called 'Thee Only One' on Slumberland. I guess she must get bored easily or something. In any case, the apple hasn't fallen very far from the tree with fuzzed-up lo-fi garage the order of the day on the A-side, topped with a fine dressing in the form of an out of tune vocal which sounds so disinterested it's untrue.. In a good way, like. The B-side takes a different approach, sounding like a doo-wop ballad played on a cheapo organ in the room underneath the one with the broken 4-track. I like it and stuff and it comes on emerald green clear vinyl so it looks nice too.

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What their label says...

As a founding member, songwriter, instrumentalist, and vocalistin Vivian Girls and drummer and occasional vocalist in CrystalStilts, Frankie Rose has been an integral part of two of the mosthighly acclaimed and influential groups to come out of Brooklyn sstill-vital music scene in the past several years. Her soloproject not only reflects the earmarks of both those groups, butalso reveals her as a fully-formed artist in her own right.Ms. Rose s music is haunted by the ghosts of 60s girl groupBrill Building and 80s and 90s noise-pop in equal measure.It s a spooky, lovely sound her ethereal yet affectation-freevoice swirling in a sea of church-like harmonies over a bed oftambourines, bells, and propulsive drumming. Recalling in spiritgroups like The Aislers Set and Black Tambourine, Rose s musicis timeless and immediate, both deeply personal and completelyuniversal.Pitchfork cited Where Do You Run To? as one of the bestsongs of 2008, and after much anticipation Slumberland presentsRose s debut single. Recorded at Marlborough Farms Studiowith Gary Olson, Kyle Forrester, and Crystal Stilts J.B.Townsend, Thee Only One is a perfect slice of surf-tingednoise-pop. Laden with rumbling reverb and tangy guitar twang,it s an ideal tune with which to wrap up another (almost) endlesssummer. On the flip, Hollow Life is a more subdued affair spectral psychedelia that resembles nothing so much as Opal s Kendra Smith at her most haunting. Building to a mesmerizingcrescendo, Hollow Life is a sublime complement to TheeOnly One, rounding out this single in fine fashion.