Friendly Fires – Pala You can’t imagine the money men at Friendly Fires’ label having too many sleepless nights over when to release Pala. With summer almost within touching distance, the boys from St. Albans have produced possibly the most unashamedly sunny and joyful album of glossy pop since crimped hair and shoulder pads went…
Kicking off with Tame Impala’s dreamy cover of Michael Jackson’s ‘Stranger In Moscow‘ and finishing off with promising new band Sundara Karma, the below playlist is full of cracking new tunes from the month of March. In between those tracks is a brand new track from The Orwells, De La Soul’s Dilla-produced ‘Vocabulary Spills’, a…
Friendly Fires have been a bit quiet since the release of their very good second album Pala in 2011. Today they’re back with a bang though, revealing the first track they have recorded with production duo The Asphodells. The Asphodells, in case you were wondering, are Andrew Weatherall and Timothy J Fairplay, and their loop-based…
With Christmas fast approaching and the thick end of 2011 behind us, it’s time to take stock and look back at the albums that soundtracked our year – and what better way to do that than a good old fashioned top 10 list!? We’ve gone back through all of our album reviews over the past…
Friendly Fires front-man Ed Macfarlane has revealed the St Albans band may be moving away from their trademark ‘indie-rave’ sound in recording sessions for their third album. Speaking of the sessions, Macfarlane told The Sunday Mirror: “We’ve been working on eight-minute long tracks that don’t sound anything like what we do now.” The singer went…
Hotly tipped London three-piece Theme Park have today unveiled their new single ‘Tonight’, the first to be taken from their upcoming eponymous debut album. ‘Tonight’ was produced by Friendly Fires frontman Ed Macfarlane, and is unsurprisingly a bouncy indie-disco floor filler. Listen to ‘Tonight’ here and let me know what you think: ‘Tonight’ will be released on…
