Guided by the succinct, sweet, and self-conscious tendencies of singer/songwriter Greta Kline, indie pop group Frankie Cosmos started as a prolific home-based solo project in the early 2010s. As a young teen in the late 2000s, she tapped into the quirky vibes of New York's SideWalk Cafe anti-folk scene, which had given birth to  early in the decade, as well as the D.I.Y. ethos of . Her songs appeared mostly online in various albums, sometimes on a monthly basis. Growing in popularity and influence, Frankie Cosmos made her studio and label debut with Zentropy in 2014. Two years later, Next Thing was her first Top 40 independent album. Though Kline had been recording with a backing band since Zentropy, the project's first official outing as a quartet was 2018's Vessel, Frankie Cosmos'  debut. Their darker third  outing, 2022's pandemic-penned Inner World Peace tweaked the project's indie pop with touches of psychedelic and '70s pop inspirations.

~ Marcy Donelson & Fred Thomas, Rovi