PITS001 Friendly Fires - Photobooth EP

1. Photobooth

2. It's Over Now

3. Your Love

Like all good suburban mall rats , the core trio of Friendly Fires
began in a big-trousered and flailingly inept hardcore/metal band,
trying to ape then heroes Gorilla Biscuits and Nitro , packing out
youth clubs with fellow teens at gigs mainly remembered , if at all ,
for the low level chaos that ensued - airborne crash cymbals
hospitalising bass players , guitar amps robbed at knife point
between songs , the usual . 

Having decamped to various godforsaken corners of the Uk to study basket weaving for a few years , the threesome eventually returned to hometown St Albans in 2005 , and started working on new material under the name Friendly Fires . With their musical tastes now ranging from soul, r'n'b, techno, the weirder ends of the Rock and beyond ,the music they made this time round took in this feast of influences and vomited it out as lean, cosmic, catchy pop of all shapes and sizes .

Their debut EP for fledgeling East London label People In The Sky takes the form of three tracks , the sinewy , funk - heavy strut of Photobooth leading the way , cosmic rocker 'Its Over Now' heading up the b side with its'shades of MBV , and tucked away as the B2 an irreverent take on the Frankie Knuckles / Jamies Principle ( not Candy friggin' Stratton ! )house classic 'Your Love'. Lots of bases covered , much more to come .