Frankie Rose announces her sixth solo album, Hila, due on Sept 18 via Born Losers / Night School Records. Now she has shared the first single and music video from the album, ‘Cant Be Wrong’.
Frankie Rose has spent fifteen years building one of the most quietly distinctive bodies of work in American independent music. Bursting out of the shackles of her legacy on 2023’s Love As Projection, 2026’s Hila builds on the muscular, dance-ready songwriting and transcendent melodies to result on Rose’s most exploratory and affecting record of her career. Imbued with yearning melodies and brooding post-punk dynamics, Hila is Frankie Rose at her most impressionistic and expansive.
Self-produced at her home studio featuring collaborations with drummer Justin Welch (Elastica/Lush), Hila was recorded following extensive touring with The Jesus & Mary Chain and Swervedriver. The result is the most confident, searching music Rose has produced; muscular in its production yet emotionally vulnerable in its diffracted neon glow. A record informed by loss and the way grief mutates our senses, it’s fitting that Rose channels the nuanced darkness of later Coil, at times the pounding EBM-production of Skinny Puppy and the near-spiritual alien-ness of Cocteau Twins. On Hila, the doors of perception are constantly melting, revealing the porous nature of the seen and unseen. The result is a synesthesia that flips the senses.
First single ‘Cant Be Wrong’ serves as a transition from the optimistic pop of Rose’s previous album, introducing a thumping 80s funk rhythm track under the soaring vocal performance.
Hila:
- Olo
- Cant Be Wrong
- Return To Dust
- Shadow Twin
- Rainman
- Hila
- Manifest
- Best Of Times
- TV Star
- Velvet Refrain
