FRANKIE

On an exciting journey of creative self-exploration, FRANKIE has expanded on her previous palette of deep, resonant cello loops, piano and vocals. Delicately treading a knife edge between romanticized balladry and highly processed electronic production, HEAVEN/HELL pushes her delicate, forlorn compositional style into industrial barrages of electronic rhythms, aggressively pitch-shifted vocal samples, and fiercely edited audio sample collage. Allowing each extreme to tear into the other across her increasingly intimate vocal performance, FRANKIE employs a bold approach to ‘cut-and-paste’ sampling of her own work, shapeshifting between detailed intimacy and dramatic electronic dynamics and texture.

On the development of her current practice and her background in classical music, FRANKIE says: “There is still much I love about classical music to this day, much to critique too, but it’s shaped me for better or worse. For these new songs, I wanted to find a free way for me to work with this history which is also my history, I don’t want there to be something so sacred that it can’t be played with.”

To accompany the EP, FRANKIE has teamed up with long-time collaborators, filmmaker Austin Jack Lynch and photographer Nadine Fraczkowski. In the video for CLOUDS, Lynch produced a deeply intimate yet ghostly montage of close-ups, hands and face obscured by light and textures, as if FRANKIE were inside the camera, rather than in front of it. For the album art, Fraczkowski captured FRANKIE in occult closeness of a capsule hotel, suspended between mirrored walls, shadow and light.

CREDITS Music written, recorded and produced by Franziska Aigner Mastered by Rashad Becker at Clunk Photography by Nadine Fraczkowski Video for Clouds by Austin Lynch Color by Alastor Arnold ℗ & © Shadow World 2023