Frankie Cosmos - Aftershook

What this video is

Released August 30, 2022, 'Aftershook' arrived as a pre-release single for Frankie Cosmos' fifth album Inner World Peace (Sub Pop, October 21, 2022), the band's first record since 2019's Close It Quietly. The video emerged during a moment of renewed indie music video creativity post-pandemic, with DIY surrealism and queer monster-movie aesthetics gaining cultural traction. Director Andy Rose Fidoten, whose own…

Why it matters

Represents the mature 2020s iteration of the Sub Pop indie pop lineage — introspective, guitar-driven, and self-aware — filtered through a surrealist, queer-inclusive visual register. The video exemplifies how independent label music videos in this era leveraged low-cost practical effects and…

The director

Andy Rose Fidoten is a filmmaker, teacher, comix artist, writer, and former punk rocker based in New York City. A Manhattan native and Oberlin graduate, Fidoten earned an MFA from Stony Brook/Killer Films. Their debut short Gay Teen Werewolf (2021) premiered…