![]() His history as a manual laborer-Maine lobster fisherman, groundskeeper-often serves as inspiration for Friendship’s lyrics, delivered in a low warble to which an aura of Real Talk is often projected. ![]() The best moments blur the distinction-a sputtering, almost atonal keyboard serves as the instrumental backdrop for the intense heart-to-heart of “Alive Twice,” whereas the robust alt-country of “Hank” ends with a pawn shop guitar’s circuitry giving out, a fitting coda for a tribute to making the most out of our faulty tools. ![]() Each member plays at least four instruments and contributes production, while the album is split into proper songs and improvisatory interludes. Similar to Florist’s recent self-titled album, Love the Stranger is counter-programming to the pandemic’s ongoing challenge to communal artistry, rebranding a once insular project as a potluck. Each of the four core members of Friendship has their own widely varying solo projects, most notably, 2nd Grade, a band whose compact power-pop is an inverse of Friendship. If Friendship’s previous album, Dreamin’, was meant to reflect the rejuvenating power of that one beer in the fridge after a long day of work, Love the Stranger is Wriggins splitting a six pack of the good shit for a celebratory toast. Depending on your identification with Friendship’s slow-and-low lifestyle, it’s also the moment that epitomizes the appeal and frustration of Love the Stranger, an album that sees a higher calling in taking it all in-especially if it’s the boring stuff.Īs their debut on indie institution Merge, the mere existence of Love the Stranger is a stress test on Friendship’s ethos, a 45-minute Big Moment. All of the real action takes place in the past and future. He hears that a local cathedral is being destroyed and imagines how it’ll affect the person he’s singing to. Wriggins dreams of getting away, not necessarily out of town. ![]() That’s a long moment, and not much happens in it. ![]()
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