Having spent the last few years serving behind the kit with assorted Brooklyn-based lo-fi projects (Crystal Stilts, Vivian Girls, Dum Dum Girls), Frankie Rose put down the sticks for a 2010 solo album, credited to Frankie Rose & the Outs, and now operates as a Rose by another name as she follows with this, her second full-length. On Interstellar, Rose finally makes the leap away from that influential but restrictive garage scene to reveal another side to her musical references, by producing a trim but expressive soundscape which serves as an homage to the more accessible elements of 1980s New Wave (with Rose particularly indebted to the Cure).
