Interstellar Extended

We were all knocked out by the Frankie Rose and the Outs album from 2010, the effortlessness of its gorgeous girl-pop mantras, the intimate immensity of its Spector-esque walls of reverb, the beauty of a song sung sweetly over the most graceful two-chord vamps. But are you ready for the new Frankie Rose? — her transformation into a wholly other kind of pop, the reverie and revelation of Interstellar, an album that floats free of its maker's history — time spent with Vivian Girls, Dum Dum Girls, Crystal Stilts, and creator of one of the most breathlessly compelling girl-pop albums of the past few years — and offers the listener something strangely other, as alien as it is familiar, as compelling as it is enchanting.