FRANKIE ROSE AND THE OUTS - LP
I’d been curious about this band for a while but it was hard enough trying to find the CD and I was seeking
out the vinyl (yes, I know I tend towards Luddism) so it took me a while to get it and really listen to it. Frankie
Rose and the Outs play a type of dreamy pop rock that’s almost ethereal at its core. Built on a blend of catchy
hooks and a sense of guitar and occasional organ arrnagements that’s both trippy yet manages to maintain afamiliar feel,
the band’s songs are less brief songs but aural experiences that draws as much from psychedelia and space rock as it
does from classic pop music. Add to this vocal harmonies that draw you into this strange yet conforting universe and
you have an album that could be at home in 1966 as it is in 2010 and 2011. The debut album from Frankie Rose and the
Outs shows a band carving their own sonic path and emerging with something that’s spacey, dreamy, unique, and somewhat
timeless. This is a well needed shock to the system. (BOONE)
(Slumberland Records. P.O. Box 19029.
Oakland, CA 94619. slumberlandrecords.com)
