Frankie Cosmos - Zentropy (Black Vinyl) Compact Disc The Oakland trio’s songs careen

The Oakland trio’s songs careen with volatile energy and lead singer Ham D’Amato’s lyrics are enveloped with acerbic humor and resonant perceptiveness

Previously only available on CD in Japan and released in 1991

Almost a decade on since ‘Elaenia’

Each song is a catalog of fragments

Debut full length Blue Heron captures Levine’s continued search for meaning

Frankie Cosmos - Zentropy (Black Vinyl) Compact Disc The Oakland trio’s songs careenEditors at AllMusic Guide rated this release 4. 5 out of five stars, declaring it an Album Pick, with critic Fred Thomas calling it "an impossibly rare instance of unabashedly twee songs that transcend self consciousness and overstated humility to connect with visceral emotional currents" that "is astonishingly complete, communicating enormous ideas effortlessly and approaching perfection with its 27 minutes". Writing for Pitchfork, Mike Powell rated