Friendly Fires, ‘Pala' - First Listen

Friendly Fires' forthcoming second album 'Pala' is released on May 16. Here's our track-by-track response upon hearing it for the first time Everywhere they go, they take the weather with them, and as if to herald the first fumbling fingers of spring, the return of Friendly Fires hits us like a warm sun on the back of the neck. As you’ll know by now, new album ‘Pala’ is named for a doomed utopia from an Aldous Huxley novel, an island fuelled by educational drug use, tantric sex and parrot...

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