Frankie Cosmos - Empty Head

What this video is

Released October 18, 2022, as the final pre-release single from Inner World Peace (Sub Pop, October 21, 2022), 'Empty Head' arrived as Frankie Cosmos re-emerged following the pandemic gap since 2019's Close It Quietly. The video participates in a post-pandemic indie visual language that prizes sincerity, restraint, and conceptual lightness over spectacle. The levitation concept—a director Sophia Bennett Holmes…

Why it matters

Frankie Cosmos occupies a pivotal position in the 2010s-2020s bedroom pop-to-indie pop continuum, bridging the Tumblr-era lo-fi microgenre with the institutional backing of Sub Pop Records. 'Empty Head' represents the band's most polished production period while retaining the whispery…

The director

Sophia Bennett Holmes is a music video director with a documented working relationship with Frankie Cosmos spanning at least 2014 to 2022. She previously directed the Frankie Cosmos 'Art School' video in 2014. Her work is characterised by conceptually driven…