‘Frank is enormously engaging, uproariously funny and faintly terrifying. It’s hard not to feel that if he doesn’t become a pop star, it’ll be pop music’s loss.’ The Guardian

The 3 Little Words EP is Vincent Frankmusik’s first release on Island Records, marking the emergence of an electrifying new pop star. It sees 22-year-old Vince’s output evolve from relentless DIY creativity to state-of-the-art disco pop juggernauts in the hands of producer Stuart Price – world-class musical cohort of Madonna and The Killers.

3 Little Words, its gleaming centrepiece, has a future-proof melody. Unusually amongst his peers, Vincent writes his songs as well as co-crafting his productions, turning out what happened if The Field and ABC were trapped in a lift together with a laptop.

Having self-released an EP called ‘Frankisum’ on his Apparent label in Autumn 07 and a limited edition 7” single this summer, the 3 Little Words EP marks Vince’s move from underground nightclub prodigy to pop force to be reckoned with. Despite the production pyrotechnics, it’s the beating-heart at the centre of the songs which is connecting out there – over 760,000 plays on his myspace and counting.

Vincent calls his style ‘blade runner pop’ – influenced by the movies’ Vangelis soundtrack, arcade games, bleeding-edge club music and the theatrics of pop greats like Björk and David Bowie.

A self-taught pianist, if you happen to find yourself in Soho’s underground burlesque bar The Black Gardenia on a Wednesday night you could run into him playing solo on a piano. Inviting friends and performers down from his myspace, he’s dubbed them the Secret Liasons – one recent guest being Little Boots going unplugged too. Track 4 gives you a taste of these nights with the Black Gardenia version of 3 Little Words.

It’s tempting to call Vincent the Stuart Price of his generation: a hyper-productive pop dreamer from a marginal town (Croydon for Vince, Reading for Stuart). His extra activities include producing house tracks under AKAs and finding ambitious club-kid princesses to produce/write with.

He’s constructed a pop-banger for the Prince of Grime Tinchy Stryder. Then there are his sought after remixes. Bloc Party personally requested one. His CSS rmx is a Radio 1 favourite and you can find his reworking of Telepathé’s ‘Chrome’s On It’ on their forthcoming 12” vinyl EP.

You’ll be able to buy the 3 Little Words EP on CD with his album to come in March 09 but to understand what’s going on with Vincent you need to get out on youtube, myspace and blogs. Lots of his prodigious musical output has to be downloaded in bytes from the digital miasma. Vincent decided to start his own website to give away the tunes stacked up in the hard drive of his Apple G4 at home in Thornton Heath.

He gives away covers (of Omarion’s Timbaland-produced future classic ‘Icebox’ for example) 4X4 Daft Punk-a-like house, as well as posting found sounds he likes recorded on his camera phone (a car accelerating down his road in South London).

The clubs are looked after on this release with remixes from L-Vis 1990, Black Strobe and a massive Paper Faces one (alias of the Grammy-award winning remixer Stuart Price of course). Having already supported Sam Sparro and Robyn, Vincent is keeping himself busy over the coming month with (deep breath!) a special late night piano set at Bestival, an Agnes B party at London Fashion Week, playing Adventures Closer To Home and the hotly anticipated new Matter London club with Mylo and Reverend & The Makers.

Smart, heart-felt, club-wise: Vincent is a pop star that could reshape the art in his own image.