Frankie Cosmos - Zentropy (Black Vinyl)

Frankie Cosmos - Zentropy (Black Vinyl)Editors at AllMusic Guide rated this release 4. 5 out of five stars, declaring it an Album Pick, with critic Fred Thomas calling it "an impossibly rare instance of unabashedly twee songs that transcend self consciousness and overstated humility to connect with visceral emotional currents" that "is astonishingly complete, communicating enormous ideas effortlessly and approaching perfection with its 27 minutes". Writing for Pitchfork, Mike Powell rated

“spellbound”

drawing equally on the rhythmic lexicons of dancehall and 20th century post-minimalism

Bug also demonstrates that J Mascis has a talent for winding folk-rock

Lib's inventive production leans towards the jazzy side of his repertoire

from the kit

Ya'll should already be familiar

Krell was in search of a return to the open-hearted

shameless joy

Some of the seeds for Phasor were planted in 2019 on Lange’s 39th birthday after a 5-hour visit to Salvatore Matirano’s SAL MAR machine at the University of Illinois

" where Gumball's garage punk monotone delivery and Falcon Bitch's tuneful tenor volley back and forth in what sounds like the theme song for some Adult Swim cartoon

including those two outtakes

Vertigo is the sound of slippage