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Indie Roundup (Easy Does It Edition) | Three Tracks To Help Ease Into Your Week

Frankie Cosmos, Stella Emmett & Alex Bent help keep things to a minimum.

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Frankie Cosmos gets cookin’, Stella Emmett wakes up and Alex Bent cools it in today’s short ’n’ sweet Roundup. Here’s hoping the rest of the week is this undemanding.


1 Frankie Cosmos serves up a TV bake-off parody — with the help of comedian Catherine Cohen — in the video for the tasty number Wannago, the latest preview of her Sept. 6 album Close It Quietly. Bonus points for the subtle title placement in the clip. SAYS THE PRESS RELEASE: ā€œI thought a baking competition theme would translate well to a music video. In some ways I think the lighthearted drama, tension, and release of that format mirrors the ebb and flow of emotions (lyrically and musically) in this song, and so it was kind of a natural fit,ā€ says drummer Luke Pyenson.” On your mark, get set, watch:


2 If you’re tired of staring at your phone all, New York State pop singer-songwriter Stella Emmett has a solution: Stare at her phone for a while. It’s easier than you might think. You just have to watch the homemade clip for her pleasantly drifting track DayDream, from her Aug. 23 debut album Admirer. Something else to admire: Her ability to ignore more than 30,000 emails. SAYS THE PRESS RELEASE: ā€œDayDream is probably my favorite song off of the album. I’ve relied heavily on fantasies to cope with stress since I can remember, and there comes a point where that isn’t as harmless a coping mechanism as you might think, because it interferes with your waking life. This song is about coming to terms with that.ā€ Well, it beats coming to terms with that inbox:


3 I don’t really know what Coolin’ means — but whatever it is, Alex Bent is doing it in his hew hip-hop single. More to the point, he’s making it look good. Judge for yourself in the Saskatoon artist’s entertainingly vibrant video. SAYS THE PRESS RELEASE:Alex Bent + the Emptiness is the recording and performing solo project of Saskatoon singer Alex Bent. Coolin’ is a hip-hop track blending a twist of nostalgia with the current trends of the genre.” Get Bent: