Friendly Fires self-titled début fuses indie with Latino
XL Recordings signing Friendly Fires have been carving quite a career for themselves, working the festival crowds with their avant garde take on the Rio Carnival and getting into bed with musos (NB: Not literally, we’re not suggesting anything salacious is occurring).
The album starts with the well-known Jump In The Pool. The track utilises eighties vocal techniques and with pounding Brazilian percussion. Its floaty, fantasy rhythms punctuated with bass. It effortlessly and fluidly moves from track to track, it holds remnants of personal favourites Ride being fronted by Tony Hadley.
Stand-out tracks are the critically acclaimed Paris which paints an idyllic picture of friendship and frivolity. In stark contrast, the penultimate track Ex Lover talks of the anguish felt over love lost, it is also a modern day shoegaze classic that even Kevin Shields would find difficult to pooh-pooh.
Friendly fire is term coined by the American military for accidentally killing its allies. The oxymoron signifies two opposites that come together to make everything ok. The band Friendly Fires does just that, mixing a bygone era of electric music with traditional Latin beats.
First published 2008
The album starts with the well-known Jump In The Pool. The track utilises eighties vocal techniques and with pounding Brazilian percussion. Its floaty, fantasy rhythms punctuated with bass. It effortlessly and fluidly moves from track to track, it holds remnants of personal favourites Ride being fronted by Tony Hadley.
Stand-out tracks are the critically acclaimed Paris which paints an idyllic picture of friendship and frivolity. In stark contrast, the penultimate track Ex Lover talks of the anguish felt over love lost, it is also a modern day shoegaze classic that even Kevin Shields would find difficult to pooh-pooh.
Friendly fire is term coined by the American military for accidentally killing its allies. The oxymoron signifies two opposites that come together to make everything ok. The band Friendly Fires does just that, mixing a bygone era of electric music with traditional Latin beats.
First published 2008
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