Today, June 4th, Frankie Cosmos has shared an official video for the album opener, “Pressed Flower,” off the group’s forthcoming long-player, Different Talking, available worldwide on June 27th. Directed by Adam Kolodny, the video stars comedy icon Tracey Ullman alongside the band and others.
 
Frankie Cosmos’s frontperson, Greta Kline, shares, “It’s a dream come true to have Tracey Ullman star in this video. She’s the funniest person I know, and brings love, depth, and care to every character she plays. Getting to play dress-up with her and find this Manhattanite havoc-wreaker character was a blast. The Director, Adam Kolodny, brought the perfect framework to our crazy concept. This song, for me, is about figuring out who you are, moving on while looking back, and feeling the effects of memories on locations. The video is about someone running around NYC in a disguise, causing a chaotic chain of events for the locals (played by my band).”

Watch this zany and amazing video here.

Different Talking is the band’s sixth and, so far, best album. It’s a collection of fragments and memories, remembered places, and reinterpreted feelings that adds up to a lucent, humming whole: a sturdy, worldly indie-rock record about aging and the passage of time that nonetheless manages to feel sharply current.
 
The current configuration of Frankie Cosmos features Greta Kline, Alex Bailey, Katie Von Schleicher, and Hugo Stanley. Kline is the only constant, but Stanley, Bailey, and Von Schleicher are crucial collaborators, and to use the names “Greta Kline” and “Frankie Cosmos” interchangeably would be incorrect. Kline remains the primary songwriter, and the band arranges the music on Different Talking as a whole; however, this is the first album to be self-tracked by the unit, with no external studio producers.
 
“Pressed Flower” follows the previously released singles “Bitch Heart” and  “Vanity” which Stereogum described as “…bigger and more complex than most of what we’ve heard from Frankie Cosmos in the past, without sacrificing the innate warm, DIY quality of Kline’s songwriting.”
 
The band has announced a World Tour, with the North American dates beginning on September 3 and running through October 25. Fantasy Of A Broken Heart and Moontype will support the first leg, from September 3 to September 20, and Chris Cohen & Emily Yacina will support the second leg, from October 9 to October 25. The band will then return to the UK and EU for 7 shows with Babehoven on main support. See below for a complete list of shows.

North America:
Sat. Jul. 26 -  Teulon, MB - Real Love Summer Fest
Wed. Sep. 3 - Kingston, NY - Tubby’s    #
Thu. Sep. 4 - Philadelphia, PA - Underground Arts  #
Fri. Sep. 5 - Washington, DC - Black Cat  #
Sat. Sep. 6 - Asheville, NC - Eulogy  #
Mon. Sep. 8 - Atlanta, GA - The Earl  #
Tue. Sep. 9 - Nashville, TN - Blue Room  #
Thu. Sep. 11 - Madison, WI - High Noon Saloon   #
Fri. Sep. 12 - Minneapolis, MN - Varsity  #
Sat. Sep. 13 - Chicago, IL - Thalia Hall  #
Sun. Sep. 14 - Detroit, MI - El Club  #
Mon. Sep. 15 - Toronto, Canada - Great Hall  #
Tue. Sep. 16 - Montreal, Canada - Bar le Ritz  #
Thu. Sep. 18 - Portland, ME - Space Gallery  #
Fri. Sep. 19 - Boston, MA - Brighton Music Hall  #
Sat. Sep. 20 - Brooklyn, NY - Music Hall of Williamsburg  #
Thu. Oct. 9 - Santa Ana, CA - Constellation Room @
Fri. Oct. 10 - San Diego, CA - Quartyard @
Sat. Oct. 11 - Pioneertown, CA - Pappy & Harriets Pioneertown @
Mon. Oct. 13 - Salt Lake City, UT - Soundwell @
Tue. Oct 14 - Boise, ID - Shrine Social Club @
Fri. Oct. 17 - Seattle, WA - The Crocodile @
Sat. Oct. 18 - Tacoma, WA - The Spanish Ballroom @
Sun. Oct. 19 - Portland, OR - Wonder Ballroom @
Tue. Oct. 21 - Sacramento, CA - Harlow’s @
Wed. Oct. 22 - San Francisco, CA - Great American Music Hall @
Thu. Oct. 23 - Santa Cruz, CA - Catalyst Club Atrium @
Fri. Oct. 24 - Ojai, CA - Deer Lodge @
Sat. Oct. 25 - Los Angeles, CA - Teragram Ballroom @
 
UK/EU
Sat. Nov. 15 - Dublin, IE - Button Factory $
Mon. Nov. 17 - Manchester, UK - YES (Pink Room)  $
Tue. Nov. 18 - London, UK - Electric Brixton  $
Fri. Nov. 21 - Paris, FR - Maroquinerie  $
Sat. Nov. 22 - Amsterdam, NL - Bitterzoet 
Sun. Nov. 23 - Brussels, BE - Botanique  $
Tue. Nov. 25 - Berlin, DE - Lido  $
 # Fantasy Of A Broken Heart & Moontype
@  w/  Chris Cohen & Emily Yacina
 $ w/ Babehoven
 

Different Talking is now available to pre-order on vinyl/CD/digital formats from Sub Pop. A Loser Edition LP on Opaque Red is available through the Sub Pop Mega Mart (North America) and  White Vinyl via the Mega Mart 2 (UK/EU), and your local record store