You are someone else

"In 2013 Fickle Friends won a competition to play at The Big Feastival (Jamie Oliver's wonderfully posh food and music festival). They played on the main stage just after lunch, to a handful of woozy punters, and it was obvious then that the Brighton based five-piece had something a bit special. Now, half a decade on, the sparkling sugar-rush crew have finally released their debut album. It's been a long time coming, but their first record is a stonker ... Oozing summer vibes and with choruses that'll hit you harder than a tsunami, the quintet's debut is like an alcopop: sweet and unashamed, the ideal dancefloor tipple".

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"On You Are Someone Else, Fickle Friends dance through the decades; there are moments dashed with Disco and spun in the candy-floss of Dance Pop, alongside Indie-infused meanderings into the '70s and '80s that totally bop. Hell, even the album's cover looks like a Patrick Nagel-crafted, Duran Duran-inspired artistic rendering. How can you not love that? Hungry like wolves for an infectious (sonic) epidemic, Fickle Friends are saccharine sweet, candy-coated Indie Pop that takes the very best of yesterday's dance-floor antics and injects a full-on dose of modernism into that neon, spandex-adorned picture. A delicious nominee for your newest not-quite-guilty pleasure, musically speaking, Fickle Friends have pizzazz in spades".

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"On their infectious debut album, 2018's You Are Someone Else, Brighton, England's Fickle Friends manage to make their dancey brand of '80s- and early-'90s-influenced synth pop sounds utterly contemporary. Produced by Mike Crossey, the album finds the band deftly straddling the line between the uber-polished studio aesthetic favored by '90s production powerhouse Stock, Aitken & Waterman, and the dreamy, evocative indie electronic of bands like Passion Pit".

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