Having spent the last year reminding everyone exactly why they’re one of the UK’s best loved bands via a series of jubilant, celebratory live shows and a duo of singles (‘Love Like Waves’and ‘Heaven Let Me In’ plus an impeccably chosen cover of Charles B & Adonis’ ‘Lack Of Love’) that were a near perfect distillation of club-fuelled euphoria and instinctively modern pop sensibilities, Friendly Fires today end months of speculation with the announcement of their long-waited third album.
Arriving eight years after their last album, Inflorescent is the sound of a band rejuvenated and reborn. The hiatus had left some to question whether we’d ever see another full length Friendly Fires record but once the three band members -Ed Macfarlane, Edd Gibson and Jack Savidge, friends since the age of eleven – reconvened in Macfarlane’s parents’ St Albans garage (the scene of much of their early recorded output) at the tail end of 2017, things were never really in doubt. Arriving with just three scrawled words (“Love. Like. Waves”) as a starting point, they soon emerged with a finished song as fresh and vital as anything they’d done before.
To celebrate news of the album release, Friendly Fires today release their brand new single ‘Silhouettes’. Debuted as Annie Mac’s ‘Hottest Record‘, the track was recorded in producer James Ford’s attic studio and features co-production from Ford and Mark Ralph. With a nod towards the Brazilian disco records the band have always loved, it’s another anthem-in-the-making and a tantalising pointer towards the sound of Inflorescent.
