Friend of a Friend - Desire!

Format: LP, Includes Marketing Sticker + Double-Sided Insert w/ Photos And Lyrics. Pressed On Ruby Red Vinyl
Catalogue No.: LP-EL-623
Barcode: 701220916903
Release Date: 25 Apr 2025
Genre: Indie & Lo-Fi

"Few albums evoke a sense of place as vividly as Desire!, the third offering from Friend of a Friend. The duo—Claire Molek and Jason Savsani—craft music that feels cinematic and immersive, threading themes of yearning, transformation, and resilience through a palette of lush synths, tactile rhythms, and haunting vocals. Recorded in a sprawling Victorian mansion in rural Illinois, with a history steeped in spiritualism and the paranormal, Desire! not only embodies the environment where it was created but also reflects the duo’s evolution as musicians and sonic architects. 

Producer Jordan Lawler (M83), who also worked with the duo on FACILITIES, played a pivotal role in shaping the album’s sound. His approach seamlessly integrates analog and electronic elements, from shimmering synth pads to deep, tactile rhythms. The result is a record that feels both vast and grounded, inviting careful listening to its intricate details.

With Desire!, Friend of a Friend captures their evolution as musicians and storytellers, offering a record that lingers in the spaces between tension and beauty. The result is an immersive and deliberate work, one that showcases their musical innovation and their ability to create a vivid, otherworldly sense of place—haunting and cinematic, like stepping into a film where every sound carries a story.

The band has been named an artist to watch by Rolling Stone, an “American visionary” group by Mesmerized, an “indie rock band taking the scene by storm"" by Wonderland Magazine, a ""cultural phenomenon"" by Extravafrench, ""sonic visionaries"" by Plastic Magazine,  ""the next huge thing in indie rock"" by Each Measure, and ""seamlessly intriguing"" by Obscure Sound."    

A1. oasis  A2. Anna  A3. FTV  A4. gloria  A5. mama  B1. beautiful ppl  B2. desire  B3. moonlight  B4. Hh2  B5. maverick