Late Night Tales: Friendly Fires (Vinyl 2LP)
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Late Night Tales reaches the big 3 – 0 and what a way to celebrate, with a landmark edition from the effervescent Friendly Fires.
Formed in 2006 in St Albans, Friendly Fires trio Ed MacFarlane, Edd Gibson and Jack Savidge recorded their 2008 self-titled debut album in Ed’s parent garage. In view of its DIY conception it made a serious impact, selling over 200,000 copies and picking up a fistful of Brit Award and Mercury nominations along the way.
Released in summer 2011, the band’s Aldous Huxley referencing second album Pala further investigated the band’s love of artists like Talking Heads, Timbaland and Scritti Politti but also of the genius techno of Carl Craig and Boards of Canada. So, there we have the perfect prescription of head, heart and footwork that defines ideal participants for constructing Late Night Tales.
The opening third is pitched firmly on the up, tripping back through disco’s global strands with Ontario’s Junior Boys, 80s Dutch proto-house by Renée, Grammy Award winning Joe Simon, the erotically charged discofunk odyssey Carry On, Turn Me On by French outfit Space and anthemic porn-disco Fly Like An Eagle by Dennis Parker.
Taking a left turn via the always welcome art-pop auteurs Bibio and Stereolab, the familiar chimes of Hold On by SBTRKT ring onto Friendly Fires’ exclusive cover version of the ’78 electronic classic Why Don't You Answer by Eberhard Schoener and Sting.
We also see a brace of fresh 2012 releases in the form of Iron Galaxy Attention Seeker and Melody Echo Chamber Endless Shore. On the home leg, Grouper’s acoustic minimalism attracts the shoegazing daydreams of Cocteau Twins and Slowdive before Friendly Fires take it home with the seemingly unmanageable arrangement of Olivia Newton John into German neo-classical composer Nils Frahm.
Tucking you in, Late Night Tales begin a new bedtime story Flat Of Angles narrated by new storyteller Benedict Cumberbatch.
Tracklist:
1. Junior Boys - Under The Sun
2. Renée - Change Your Style
3. Joe Simon - Love Vibration
4. Dennis Parker - Like An Eagle
5. Space - Carry On Turn Me On
6. Iron Galaxy - Attention Seeker
7. Bibio - Don't Summarise My Summer Eyes
8. Stereolab - The Black Arts
9. Why Don't You Answer? (Exclusive Cover Version)
10. Sonna - One Most Memorable
11. Laurel Halo - Embassy
12. Grouper - Invisible
13. Melody's Echo Chamber - Endless Shore
14. Slowdive - Shine
15. Olivia Newton-John - Love Song
16. Nils Frahm - Over There, It's Raining
17. Benedict Cumberbatch - Flat Of Angles Part 1 (Exclusive Spoken Word)