My Firsts: Greta Kline of Frankie Cosmos
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Jun 27, 2025
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My Firsts is our electronic mail interview collection the place we ask musicians to inform us about their first life experiences, be it early childhood ones (first phrase, first live performance, and many others.) or their first tastes of being a musician (first band, first tour, and many others.). For this My Firsts we discuss to Greta Kline, entrance particular person of Frankie Cosmos.
Starting Frankie Cosmos in 2011, Kline launched her debut LP Zentropy three years later. Kline and the remainder of the crew that’s joined her in Frankie Cosmos through the years—Alex Bailey, Katie Von Schleicher, and Hugo Stanley—have been engaged on their new album just lately, titled Completely different Speaking, which is out as we speak through Sub Pop. That is the sixth LP to be launched underneath Frankie Cosmos, however the first the place the complete band has organized the music behind Kline’s songwriting. Completely different Speaking additionally marks the primary time that the band has self-tracked a document with none exterior producers, taking over the complete endeavor themselves.
The band have launched the three singles “Bitch Coronary heart,” “Self-importance,” and “Pressed Flower” forward of the album, with the latter coming with a music video starring comedy legend Tracey Ullman. Kline described the expertise in a press launch as “a dream come true. She’s the funniest particular person I do know, and brings love, depth, and care to each character she performs. Attending to play dress-up along with her and discover this Manhattanite havoc-wreaker character was a blast.”
“Pressed Flower” is a bittersweet monitor that offers with the lingering previous as Kline visits a former lover whose stagnancy threatened to maintain her frozen in time. “You pressed into me / Like a flower amongst phrases / Performed rising and / Prepared to be preserved,” she sings sentimentally. “This music, for me, is about determining who you’re, shifting on whereas trying again, and feeling the consequences of reminiscences on areas,” Kline says. “The video is about somebody working round NYC in a disguise, inflicting a chaotic chain of occasions for the locals (performed by my band).”
Learn on as Kline discusses her first band in center faculty, a shocking movie star crush, and making an attempt to alter diapers.
First pet?
My household’s canine, Joe. He was a very freaky anxious rescue canine, however stuffed with a lot love and sweetness. I used to be seven after we received him, and I needed to call him Kisses. He was so cute, and really distinctive trying; each time I took him on a stroll folks would name out, like, “that’s the cutest canine ever!!!,” which I liked. His legs had been too tall and thin for his physique, and when he would lie down his legs would sprawl out in entrance of and behind him, and his tongue would hang around of his mouth.
First favourite band?
Spice Ladies!!
First document your mother and father performed for you?
My mother and father used to play the music “Copperline” by James Taylor at bedtime once I was actually little.
First live performance you went to?
If it counts as a live performance, I noticed Michelle Department play in 2003 at a JDRF fundraiser. Her hit music was “In every single place,” which I liked.
First actor or actress you had a crush on?
Seth Rogen, from Freaks and Geeks. I used to be like 11 once I watched it, and from then on he was my movie star crush. Nothing extra romantic than him holding the again of Amy’s tuba whereas they kiss earlier than she performs within the marching band. This was a pair years earlier than he turned an precise romantic lead in Knocked Up, so I felt very forward of the curve.
First music pageant you went to?
I feel it was c/o pop pageant in Köln, the primary date of my first actual Frankie Cosmos tour, in 2013! It was a kind of unfold out festivals, sort of like SXSW, the place the pageant takes over the town, and there are little pop-ups all over the place. We performed as a two-piece, in a clothes retailer. The tour was 18 exhibits in 22 days, all in Germany, booked by my good friend Peter Schneider. It was the longest I had ever been away from residence.
First job you had?
Babysitting. I used to be 14, and the primary household I babysat for had three youngsters between the ages of like, two and 11. The oldest child helped me a lot, particularly altering the diapers of the newborn on my first day, which was actually a shit present.
First time you voted?
It was in 2012, for Obama. I used to be 18, and there was a solution to ship my poll in by my faculty. I bear in mind like three months after the election, getting a letter within the mail that my vote hadn’t counted for some motive. I used to be actually pissed off.
First instrument?
Violin, which I stop fairly rapidly as a result of it damage my neck (and in hindsight, I used to be fairly unhealthy at it, even for a six-year-old). I don’t actually matter violin as my first instrument, as a result of I used to be so younger I barely recall the teachings. Then I took classical piano classes for about 10 years, with an unbelievable instructor who taught me a lot and made it enjoyable. I really feel like piano is my precise first instrument.
First band you had been in?
I used to be in fifth or sixth grade, and a few youngsters in my class tried to kind a band to play in a battle of the bands (we had been too younger to qualify, because it turned out). Somebody in my class simply, like, gathered the ten youngsters that they knew performed devices. The primary observe was a nightmare, and it was simply manner too many individuals. I had a sort of silent communication with simply our eyes with this one lady who was actually good at guitar, and we appeared to sort of acknowledge to one another (with our eyes) that we must always simply department off and play collectively, alone. We caught round after, turned finest buddies for all times (to today), and shaped Cunning Pig, a duo, and my first songwriting undertaking. I performed drums and Eliza performed guitar.
First recording gadget?
GarageBand, straight into my laptop’s inside microphone. All my early multi-track recordings have a lot bleed, as a result of I didn’t know I ought to be utilizing headphones, and would simply flip down the earlier tracks as little as attainable whereas nonetheless having the ability to hear them. I nonetheless use GarageBand to make demos, and have been educating myself use it/increasing my information for like 16 years now.