FRIENDSHIP
Mon 19 Jul 2010
Carry Me In Your Backpack
Total carnage and garage rock riffs with splintering drums set the backbone for the songs of London duo FRIENDSHIP. Will de Witt (guitar, bass, loops) and Daniel Hills (drums, vocals) formed the band in 2007 and this April released a split 7″ with Die! Die! Die! after opening for them in Shoreditch last year. Released on Too Pure‘s singles club, the 7″ features FRIENDSHIP’s ‘Lifeguard’ backed with D!D!D!’s ‘We Built Our Own Oppressors’. The duo’s sound varies from high intensity punk with dance intentions to more slow burning shoegaze. 2009 single ‘The Graveyard Shift’ uses tropical guitar melodies, heavy driving rhythms and quasi-cyborg vocals elsewhere heard in peer two piece powerhouse Death From Above 1979. ‘The Graveyard Shift’ video features hilarious vogue-ing in the style of Blink 182. Elsewhere songs like ‘High Horse’ utilise echoplex and multiple guitar parts drift upwards like slow burning ashes being extinguished by a fire hose. ‘Live Long And Prosper’ has the feeling of settling on the edge of something, like a cliff crumbling under the burning rays of the sun. You get the feeling that if you stared at their guitar long enough your eyes would start burning.
FRIENDSHIP- The Graveyard Shift: MP3
Photo by Simon Whybray
Posted by Sarah Gooding under London, UK
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