Friend Ship

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Product Info LP : 180g Pink Vinyl LTD LP - Turquoise vinyl/Flexidisc with exclusive track/hand numbered edition More Info The Phoenix Foundation have lived many lives. From high sc hool distortion addicts to indie folk trippers to masters of motorik dream pop. It’s been five years since their last album, Give Up Your Dreams, but that downtime has been well spent. The NewZealand outfit have been writing, recording, touring with a Symphony Orchestra, creating the acclaimed soundtrack for Taika Waititi's Hunt For The Wilderpeople, building shrines to light, creating scores for VR, producing other bands and, that most lockdown - friendly activity, baking sourdough. Slowly, when they could, the six old friends found time to work together in studios, garages, forests, and sheds to put together the concise ten song set of that is Friend Ship. “We took such a long break after Give Up Your Dreams that when we did decide to make a new record we all felt it needed to be in some esoteric sense different,” says co-lead singer Samuel Flynn Scott. “To me that meant returning to something more focused. Honing in on the songs before we went deep into the arrangements and freaky sounds.” And the results reflect this approach too. WhilstFriend Ship, as you would expect, weaves seamlessly between dreamy introspective pop, stretched out grooves and psychedelic rock, it also exists as a collection of masterfully crafted songs. Friend Ship features vocals from Nadia Reid, Tiny Ruins’ Hollie Fullbrook and Anita Clark aka Motte plus sumptuous string arrangements performed by the New Zealand Symphony Orchestra. Tracklist GuruMiserable Meal (with the NZSO)Hounds Of Hell (with Nadia Reid)Decision Dollars (with Hollie Fullbrook)Transit Of Venus (with the NZSO)Tranquility (with Hollie Fullbrook)LandlineFormer Glory (with Anita Clark)My Kitchen RulesTrem Sketch Soundwave https://youtu.be/WeJLFjMppVk Show more