During the promotional cycle for their new album, Vessel, Frankie Cosmos has been having some fun with their videos. In their clip for “Jesse,” they messed around with the popular fringe YouTube video genres of ASMR and slime videos. Now they’re back with a video for “Apathy,” and it’s also pretty silly.
In the clip, directed by Tom Scharpling, a different band named Frankie Cosmos comes across the Frankie Cosmos that we know and love, so they go to one of their shows and meet them outside after, with the intent of intimidating them into changing their band name. Frankie Cosmos leader Greta Kline nonchalantly flips open her switchblade, and that’s the end of that conflict. Kline says that the video was a delight to make with Scharpling:
“I am a huge fan of Tom Scharpling’s work and was so thrilled that we got to work together on this video. I trusted him entirely and just wanted to let Tom and his team do their thing. We had so much fun making it… I was laughing so much that it probably took much longer than it should have to shoot my parts.”
Watch the “Apathy” video above, and check out Frankie Cosmos’ upcoming tour dates below.
4/30 — Pawtucket, RI @ The Met !
5/1 — New Haven, CT @ Toad’s Place !
5/2 — Cambridge, MA @ The Sinclair *
5/3 — Burlington, VT @ ArtsRiot *
5/4 — Montreal, QC @ Theatre Fairmount *
5/5 — Toronto, ON @ The Rec Room *
5/6 — Grand Rapids, MI @ The Pyramid Scheme
5/7 — Chicago, IL @ Lincoln Hall *
5/9 — Nashville, TN @ The Basement East*
5/10 — Carrboro, NC @ Cat’s Cradle (Back Room)*
5/11 — Richmond, VA @ Capital Ale House*
5/12 — Washington, DC @ Black Cat *
5/13 — Philadelphia, PA @ Union Transfer *
5/22 — Berlin, DE @ Kantine am Berghain
5/23 — Hamburg, DE @ Aalhaus
5/24 — Ghent, BE @ DOKbox
5/25 — Amsterdam, NL @ London Calling at Paradiso (Small Hall)
5/26 — Paris, France @ Petit Bain
5/28 — Manchester, UK @ Gorilla
5/29 — Glasgow, UK @ The Art School
5/30 — Bristol, UK @ The Fleece
5/31 — London, UK @ Scala
6/1 — Lille, France @ Aeronef
6/3 — Nantes, France @ Stereolux
6/4 — Lyon, France @ Grrrnd Zero
6/5 — Turin, Italy @ Astoria
6/8 — Queens, NY @ Forest Hills Stadium **
7/14 — Madrid, ES @ Mad Cool Festival
7/15 — Stirling UK @ Doune The Rabbit Hole
8/17 — Paredes De Coura, PT @ Vodafone Paredes De Coura
8/19 — Brecon Beacons, UK @ Green Man Festival
* with La La La & Florist
** with Belle & Sebastian, Perfume Genius
! with Nadine
Vessel is out now via Sub Pop. Get it here.
