In keeping with her trend of changing it up with every album, Frankie Rose\u2018s fifth solo release Love As Projection<\/i> goes on a different musical journey than her previous efforts.<\/p>\n
Rose goes all in on an outright synth based sound for this record. However, this is far from one of those synth pop revival albums. Rose\u2019s previous release was a song by song cover of The Cure\u2019s Seventeen Seconds<\/i>, in which she gives the synth drenched gloomy sound of the original album a modern facelift, which some might find better than the original.<\/p>\n
So, yes, Rose is not only a fan of eighties music, but she paid the greatest homage to it! Therefore, she can certainly take the route that plenty of bands have taken and turned her desire to make synth-based music into a retro revival record\u2026and she won’t do a shabby job doing so either!<\/p>\n
But Rose does \u201csynth\u201d her own way (and fans will love her for it). Love As Projection<\/i> is spacey and atmospheric. More often than not, the synths aren’t used to make upbeat pop music, but music that’s more chill. The strongest numbers on the record have this mood, like \u201cFeel Light\u201d and \u201cMolotov In Stereo\u201d. Also, \u201cDoa\u201d with its industrial rhythm and airy guitar-synth combination gives the album\u2019s atmospheric sound a head-bopping twist. Finally, the closing track \u201cSong For A Horse\u201d the album\u2019s quietest and most gorgeous number, ends the journey through Love As Projection<\/i> utterly blissfully.<\/p>\n
However, Rose\u2019s chosen musical style for this record fumbles on \u201cSaltwater Girl,\u201d with its prosaic synths and beats that are spiffy on the outside but dull on the inside. The gleefully upbeat \u201cAnything\u201d is a great throwback number sharing DNA with The Cure, but is a tad derivative coming from Frankie Rose.<\/p>\n
With this album\u2019s atmospheric synth-dominated sound, the glorious shimmering guitars that everyone is familiar with from Rose\u2019s prior releases is missed; so are spunky elements of her earlier music. But the addictively dancy \u201cSixteen Ways?\u201d and \u201cCome Back\u201d make it seem like nothing is missing at all.<\/p>\n
And not much is missing from this album after all. Love As Projection<\/i> doesn’t conjure as much awe as Rose\u2019s pi\u00e8ce de r\u00e9sistance Cage Tropical<\/i>; but brings just as much joy!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":35112,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"artist":[11002],"rating":[5613],"class_list":["post-46990","review","type-review","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","artist-frankie-rose","rating-rating-a-minus"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/review\/46990","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/review"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/review"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=46990"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/review\/46990\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35112"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46990"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"artist","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/artist?post=46990"},{"taxonomy":"rating","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rating?post=46990"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}