With 2018’s Vessel, Frankie Cosmos, then the six-year-old solo project of New Yorker Greta Kline, signed with Sub Pop while becoming a proper four-piece. Their third Sub Pop release, 2022’s Inner World Peace, found Kline’s bouncy, bittersweet indie pop stretching into psychedelic and ’70s pop/rock territory for the first time — at least the first time so conspicuously.
Three years later, Frankie Cosmos return with the rejiggered lineup of Kline, longtime bassist Alex Bailey, and newcomers Katie von Schleicher (who co-produced Inner World Peace) and drummer Hugo Stanley from the now-defunct Palm. Recorded in a house where they were all living together at the time, it’s the project’s first band-era effort to be produced and recorded…