Friendly Fires : Kiss of Life Video

Alex Turner: “Paul Epworth is winning at life.” Alex Turner is a man dating Alexa Chung and a star in two successful bands in recent times he is a man I can trust.

The thing is that the man formerly known as Phones is branching out into a stellar producer. First he turned skiffleball Elvis impersonator ponce Jack Penate into an accomplished singer songwriter with echoes of early 90’s tribal dance and African drums. Then he constantly manages to pull out the best of one of my favourite bands, Friendly Fires.

Kiss of Life is them eschewing their addictive brand of new disco funk. Instead the track is samba carnival drumming with drops that’ll make you scream for more. It might be my favourite track by the St Albans band that’s including Paris (Ldnnez rule number 54: almost all songs about Paris are amazing.)

Friendly Fires Dancing

Alchemy is Wonderful

Most of you know that Friendly Fires eponymous début album was one of my faves from last year. I did realise that it wasn't for everyone. The sheer majesty of the single Jump In The Pool drew people in but the rest of the album didn't work as well.
So they boys from St Helens roped in the producer of Jump In The Pool (the band produced the rest of the album), Paul Epworth aka Phones aka one the best producers around.
And they came up with the single version of Skeleton Boy.


Also here is the description of how this amazing video was made.
Edgy, monochromatic music video for Friendly Fires, directed by Clemens Habicht. The band were transformed into Skeleton Boys as a nod to the track’s title, with the aid of double-sided sticky tape, fans and trillions of bean bag balls.