Saturday, 18 October 2025

McMenamins Presents

Frankie Cosmos

Emily Yacina

7pm doors, 8pm show

$31.58 advance, $44.37 day of show

All ages welcome

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About Frankie Cosmos

Frankie Cosmos

Different Talking, the sixth and, so far, best album by NYC indie-rock four-piece Frankie Cosmos, seems to exist across time and space, as we all kind of do. 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.

Frankie Cosmos lead singer, guitarist, and songwriter Greta Kline has long been heralded as one of contemporary indie music's most deft and most necessary writers, but on Different Talking, her lyrics soften out slightly, the wry cynicism that defined recent records now giving way to an acknowledgment of the awesome, and necessary, fallibility of the human brain and heart.

To classify Different Talking as a return to form, or at least a return to the lush directness of earlier Frankie Cosmos records, would be rude but also wholly incorrect: as Different Talking makes clear, you can never return to the comfort and bravery of your early twenties, but that person always kind of lives inside you, no matter how much you change. Different Talking is about finding that person, honoring them, and learning from them. "A lot of the album is about being grown up and figuring out how to know yourself - like, 'What is moving on?'" says Kline. "How do we move on when we're addicted to a cycle of haunting our own past? Writing songs is just the way through that."

About Emily Yacina

Emily Yacina

Emily Yacina is a Pennsylvania-born Long Beach-based musician and songwriter who began writing and recording songs at age 14. Drawing on making sense of relationships and navigating inner cosmology, Yacina released her first set of songs in 2011 and continued to release batches of EPs over the proceeding years, culminating eventually in her first full length album Heart Sky in 2017 and her first studio album Remember The Silver in 2019.

In 2023, Yacina began working with Rostam Batmanglij to co-produce 2 songs written the previous year. While Trick of the Light is about the role of fantasy in relationships; Nothing Lasts was written after Yacina read Octavia Butler's Parable of the Sower, inspired by Butler's idea of God being change. 

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