Infloresent

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Tuesday 25th June 2019 Having spent the last year reminding everyone exactly why theyre one of the UKs 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 wed 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 Macfarlanes 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 theyd done before,

Alongside producers / co-producers Mark Ralph, James Ford and Disclosure, Friendly Fires have spent the last eighteen months making a record in a variety of London studios that stands tall among their previous albums; the Brit Awards and Mercury Prize-nominated Friendly Fires and its acclaimed follow up, Pala. In fact, it may well go down as their best yet. If their previous records summoned a feeling of yearning and hazy escapism, Inflorescent is much more direct, in part inspired lyrically at least by reconnecting with the hardcore records theyd bonded over as teenagers. Equally informed by experiencing the here and now, by hanging out and dancing in clubs together as a trio again, its a record very much about living in the present; about not being afraid, seizing the moment, casting aside doubts and pursuing the things you love.

To celebrate news of the album release, Friendly Fires today release their brand new single Silhouettes. Debuted as Annie Macs Hottest Record, the track was recorded in producer James Fords attic studio and features co-production from Ford and Mark Ralph. With a nod towards the Brazilian disco records the band have always loved, its another anthem-in-the-making and a tantalising pointer towards the sound of Inflorescent.