Friendly Fires share update on new music

Last month, Friendly Fires announced their comeback with details of a Brixton Academy show for 2018 alongside a snippet of new music.

The band have now shared a lengthy update on new music on their Facebook page.

“Hi there everyone. We’re all absolutely buzzing at the response to the Brixton announcement, and we thought we should speak to you guys honestly about our time away and what our return means to us,” they begin.

“Creativity can be an ephemeral thing. Sometimes ideas flow, as does the confidence to develop them into finished pieces of work. Other times it’s a struggle but you battle through it, and during some even more difficult times it feels like nothing comes at all.

“Well, we feel like we’ve reached the end of a long period of the latter scenario and are much closer to the former. We’re making music that is meeting the standards we’ve set in the past; the relationships between us are good, and we want to write a new chapter for the band that has been our lives’ most significant work.”

“It’s taken time and water under the bridge to get to this point, but in many ways us coming back now after a long break could be the best possible way for it to happen,” the band continue. “We’re working out of Ed’s old garage, just like we did at the start. Our individual addictions - largely to modular synths and county cricket - are finally under a semblance of control.Thank you for being patient, you mean the world to us and we want to repay you all with the stuff we have planned. We’ve always been proud that our fans seem to reflect the core ideals we built the band around - open, inclusive people who came to our shows to have a good time and celebrate.”

Read the full statement below, and revisit our recent Hall of Fame on the band’s 2008 debut album here.

Friendly Fires play London’s Brixton Academy on 5th April 2018. Tickets are on sale now.