Friko reveal plans for second album ‘Something Worth Waiting For’

Friko are back, having just announced that their sophomore album ‘Something Worth Waiting For’ will arrive on 24th April via ATO Records. 

The follow-up to their cult favourite 2024 debut ‘Where we’ve been, Where we go from here’, this second outing saw them team up with GRAMMY-winning producer John Congleton (St. Vincent, Mogwai, Angel Olsen), taking to his LA studio to record in a different, more instinctual way. 

Explaining more about the shift, drummer Bailey Minzenberger has noted: “On our first record we were much more involved in the technical aspect of everything, but this time John made it clear that he wanted us to just come in and do our thing. I think that allowed us to let go in a way that we never had before, and because of that we captured something very raw.”

Raising the curtain on Friko’s next chapter is lead single ‘Seven Degrees’ (named after a mis-interpretation of the phrase ‘six degrees of separation’) - a gorgeously Beatles-tinged, quietly anthemic offering that vocalist/guitarist Niko Kapetan has described as being “about connection, and trying to stay close to the people you care about.” Hear it for yourself here: