(2022) Fickle Friends - Are We Gonna Be Alright          


Review:
Continuing their brand of dance-worthy, ’80s-influenced indie-pop, Fickle Friends return with a pure party of a record. ‘Isn’t it nice to just live in the moment?’ vocalist Natassja Shiner fittingly asks on fizzing single ‘IRL’. Like all good parties, there’s an overwhelming buzz of feeling alive that’s reflected sonically, jumping from one hook-laced chorus to another, with lyrics like honest drunken confessions and whole-hearted discussions about life, love and every other struggle in between. ‘Yeah Yeah Yeah’ vents frustration at existing with a lack of purpose; ‘Pretty Great’ is a pretty great jam that bops along to the story of kissing someone at a party and being too wasted to remember their name, while ‘Glow’ is a buoyant thank you note to the person giving Shiner back her shine. Hell, they even know how to clear the room with the simmering down closer that hits like the brick wall of ‘time to go home’ sobriety at 4am. Ironically, for an album called Are We Gonna Be Alright?, the record feels far more like a soundtrack for forgetting such big questions, and instead, favours just letting it all go to some seriously sugary pop for a little while. — theskinny.co.uk





Track Listing:
01.Love You To Death
02.Not Okay
03.Write Me A Song
04.Alone
05.Glow
06.Pretty Great
07.Load On Your Mind
08.Yeah Yeah Yeah
09.IRL
10.Listen
11.Won’t Hurt Myself
12.Are We Gonna Be Alright?


Media Report:
Genre: indie-pop, synth-pop
Country: UK
Format: FLAC
Format/Info: Free Lossless Audio Codec, 16-bit PCM
Bit rate mode: Variable
Channel(s): 2 channels
Sampling rate: 44.1 KHz
Bit depth: 16 bits