After a career-defining stint in wall-of-sound-worshipping indie rock at the tail end of the Aughts, Frankie Rose has gone on to find her calling in the glittery space pop of modern New Wave. On her latest record, Cage Tropical, Rose’s ultra-compressed vocals and Joy Division synthesizers crash against the desert sounds of Los Angeles rock for a record that feels at once intimate and utterly distant. Songs like “Game to Play” and, appropriately, “Art Bell” sound like the Cocteau Twins as space aliens, beamed down into Twin Peaks’ Roadhouse and refracted through a smoky haze of synths and drum machines. Fellow dream-pop band Suburban Living opens the show. LANCE CONZETT
Frankie Rose
