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    Después de hacer muchísimo ruido al principio del año, Friends regresa con el video de su nuevo sencillo "Va Fan Gör Du" de su debut Manifest!.  El video fue dirigido por Sam Urbani la guapa y controversial vocalista de la banda. El concepto detrás del video es "Horror Porn", enjoy.    

Thankfully Friends haven't decided to release videos with a recurring theme or concept, otherwise jumping in right now with "Va Fan Gor Du" being your first taste would be seven shades of fucked up. There's a weird flasher guy, lots of really thick unibrows, a bunch of cross dressing, and all spliced together with what looks like scenes from The Sims video game. Really, though, what more do you want in a music video? Check out "Va Fan Gor Du" below, taken from the band's debut [...]

So after seeing the majority of The Shins  set, I hopped in a cab back to the Oxford Art Factory to catch the Brooklyn-based Friends  (I missed Zulu Winter  and Howler ). As we speak, Splendour In The Grass  is going on - basically the Australian Coachella  up in Byron Bay. Because so many bands travel so far for this festival, they do these sideshows throughout Oz the [...]

Last year New York band Friends gave us one of the best songs of those 12 months with "I'm His Girl" , and since then they've dropped their debut album Manifest! . This year, London duo AlunaGeorge have released one of the best, most-infectious EPs of the year with You Know You Like It , and today they dropped their own tropical, dubby, muffled mix of Friends ' contagious "I"m His Girl" [...]

Since LCD Soundsystem first popularized the term “disco-punk” about ten years ago, scores of groups, both affiliated with LCD’s DFA label and otherwise, have infused portions of the disco-punk sound into their own. One of the latest, Brooklyn’s Friends, created a sizable stir with the 2011 release of its singles “Friend Crush” and “I’m His Girl.” Both are featured on the full-length debut of the group, entitled Manifest! Hailed as the “hottest record in the world” upon its release by BBC Radio One, Manifest! invites listeners to the dance floor, and we are only too willing [...]

FRIENDS have seriously been doing all the right things in the lead up to the release of their debut album. They've released a couple of incredibly catchy pop tracks, which have gone onto be picked up by a ridiculous number of music blogs as well as a high rotation on Triple J. And if you know anything about anything, that equals success. On top of this, they've also managed to get themselves on massive festival bills across the globe, including our own Splendour In The Grass. No longer is the name, Friends , exclusive to that [...]

Friends - Manifest! By Russell Warfield 2010 single 'I'm Your Girl' sounded exactly as breezily-cool and nonchalant as you would expect of a track from a Brooklyn band with such a resolutely un-googleable name as Friends . Rolling off a loose funk groove, all live drums and unhurried bass, lead singer Samantha Urbani (even her name is trendy as fuck) sounding sassy as hell, warning other chicks off her man in an entirely non-jealous, non-confrontational way. 'Friend Crush' mined similar territories: an unabashedly confident and slinky pop [...]

Whether it be the stale typographic stylisation of their unexplainably underused moniker or the gratuitous exclamation mark tacked onto the name of the debut full-length, Brooklynites Friends seem all too finely attuned to that which they're up to. The explicitly pertinent question, therefore, is how well are they workin' it? The prompt response to such rhetoric is fairly noncommittal. Even regarding the singles previously thrust in our general, tech-savvy direction Manifest! is a distinctly mixed bag – if one bulging with Lesley Hann's bass: there's great stuff (I'm His [...]

" I'm His Girl " was a track of that toyed with retro sonic tropes - the absurdly funky baseline, the background vocal harmonies - in a way that made Friends feel almost kitschy. That might sound like a slight, but it isn't meant to be; "I'm His Girl" was one of our favorite tracks of the year because of its elements of pastiche and Brooklyn campiness. "Mind control" is cut from a similar sonic cloth, but it doesn't have the unabashed attitude. Instead, it works off of a foundation of 802s dance pop, and the rest is [...]

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Friends at The FADER Fort at SXSW 2012 Photo : Chris Becker Jr. Manifest! , the debut LP from Brooklyn's Friends comes out today ( June 5 ) on Fat Possum Records. The album was produced by the band – singer Samantha Urbani, multi-instrumentalists Lesley Hann, Matthew Molnar, and Nikki Shapiro, and drummer Oliver Duncan. They recorded its twelve tracks between last summer and this spring with engineer Daniel Schlett at Strange Weather studios in [...]

“Manifest!” with its ambiguous, ideology-laden shout, is a UFO of an album, harking back to punk rock elements of the past, synthesizers of years gone by and echoing vocals yet in a way only a hipster of Generation Y could do. Friends - Manifest (2012) 8.5/10 Lucky Number The eighties quirky secret agent visuals for « Mind Control » - the closing track on Friends’ debut album - featuring security agents whose heads have been swapped for vintage security cameras, eerie close ups of a neon lit eye and a [...]

In a few days Friends drop their eagerly anticipated debut album Manifest! and in anticipation they've let another track from it see the light of day. 'Home', a taught pop-funk belter, continues the rich vein of form that has made Manifest! so anticipated in the first place. Crossing the grooves of Friendly Fire with early CSS, it will make you want to find the sun and walk with a spring in your step. No bad thing ay? Check out 'Home' below and follow the link for previous single 'Mind [...]

If you've been following the quick ascension of Friends ' popularity you'll be pleased to realise that we're only four days away from their debut album. Since their celebrated and often-talked about single "I'm His Girl" and just-as-loved video for it, the band have been heavily scrutinised with everything they've done, but each time like with "Mind Control" they've delivered. The same can be said for this final album track "Home" , showing off Samantha's sultry voice backed by a slightly tropical [...]

Brooklyn disco-punk band Friends are all set to release their debut full-length, Manifest! , on June 5th through Fat Possum . Earlier this month, we posted the catchy disco-funk track Mind Control and now we get another from the album with the song Home . The song is another funky jam with frenetic drum beats throughout. Stream it below.

    La banda cool de Brooklyn, Friends, nos presenta "Home" otro track de su esperadísimo debut Manifest!  que saldrá el próximo 4 de junio. Recuerdo que esta rola es de las que más prende en vivo, enjoy.

Friends "Mind Control" The third music video from Friends ' album Manifest! which will be releasing June 5th via Fat Possum Records . It's not my favorite from the Brooklyn quintet but I am a heavy supporter of their music and style either way. Plus how do you [...]

    Manifest!,  el esperado álbum debut de Friends está a punto de salir. Mientras tanto la banda de Brooklyn nos presenta el video de su nuevo sencillo "Mind Control". Enjoy.    

Watch the new video for Friends '  song "Mind Control" below, taken from the album "Manifest!". Now that the band have been signed and have released a couple of singles, completed their debut album and toured the U.S. and Europe, you can tell that they've been able to put a little more money into this video, but it still has that feel of the other videos like "I'm His Girl"  and [...]

Friends gives us a clip for their latest single 'Mind Control' from the forthcoming debut ' Manifest .' This is the kind of music you can expect us to be blasting for the Summer, rooftop parties, cookouts included. Samantha Urbani.... you really are our favorite she-popper at the mo....... album will see daylight on June 4th.