Greta Kline and the massive amount of work she’s produced in the few years that she has been active, have so critically impacted my approach to making art and presenting it to the world, that it’s sort of hard to even pinpoint what it was like before accidentally stumble upon her music just over a year ago. I’m pretty certain that this is true for a lot people who’ve come in contact with the music by the young woman behind Frankie Cosmos. Greta’s music is an odd juxtaposition of being public about what feels private and very much reflects a world where a teenage girl can release a 40+ album discography of demos, available to anyone who’s willing to give them a listen. Since the release of her first studio album Zentropy, put out by the tour de force indie label Double Double Whammy in March of 2014, Frankie Cosmos has garnered critical acclaim and a cult status online and offline. Despite only having one “properly recorded” studio album out, and another one soon to be released with Bayonet Records, Greta’s achingly sincere songwriting and endearing presence have really helped fill a void in contemporary indie music where their hasn’t been so much genuineness in the past couple of decades.
She and her romantic/musical partner Aaron Maine (of Porches.) have created a whole mythos of characters, motifs, and symbols that only add the already mystifying creative output they have done collectively and alone. I met Greta for the first time the day that I moved to New York City at a show she played at the MoMA, which I designed a poster for. After meeting Greta she introduced me to the DIY scene in New York that her brother introduced her to as a young person, and since then I owe a lot of the friendships I’ve made and experiences I’ve had living here to her and her music. Just over a year after seeing Frankie Cosmos perform for the first time, I met up with Greta in Prospect Park to conduct this interview. At this point, after all that has happened, all I can really say is that there is an immense power behind Greta’s music, and it has only just begun to crystallize within the collective consciousness that surrounds it.
You can read the entire interview in Issue 9 of FORGE. online now!
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For more of Greta's work visit
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