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“Equal parts untouchable cool and indelible, hook-laden pop music” – Q

“the soundtrack to every summer party you’ll have this year” – NME

On the eve of the release of the much anticipated debut album (Manifest!, out June 4^th) Brooklyn party starters Friends now share the offbeat, effervescent album track ‘Home’, as premiered by Lauren Laverne on 6Music.

Manifest! is available to pre-order from Rough Trade (with a bonus disc), iTunes, Amazon and all retailers.

We are thrilled to share the debut European tour dates for the incredible Reptar, ahead of the release of debut album “Body Faucet” on July 2nd. This will be the first time the band tour the UK/Europe – with noted support slots with Friends in London and Liars in Berlin as well as their debut headline show in London at Birthdays and a headline show at David Lynch’s new club du jour Silencio in Paris. All tour dates and ticket links can be found below.

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Friends will perform a very special in-store at Rough Trade East on Bank Holiday Monday June 4th starting at 5pm. Wristbands for the show will be allocated to those who purchase debut album ‘Manifest!’ on CD or LP vinyl at Rough Trade East on the day of the in-store, with any remaining wristbands to be given out 1 hour prior to the stage time. Wristbands are strictly limited to one per person. More details can be found here.

Every album purchased from Rough Trade will be accompanied by a limited edition bonus disc which is exclusive to Rough Trade.

Pre-order ‘Manifest!’ from Rough Trade here

The third video from the album “Manifest!” (purchase the album at iTunes: smarturl.it/friendsmanifest)

Directed by Hiro Murai

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Director Hiro Murai
Producer Ryan Kohler
DP Starr Whitesides
Production Designer Ethan Feldbau
Editor Mandy Brown
Special vfx make up: Taylor Tanaka
Stylist: Michelle Thompson
Executive Producer: Danielle Hinde
Prod co: Doomsday Ent
Vfx: Hiro Murai and Steven Drypolcher

Reptar have unveiled the video for their new single Sebastian directed by Deadhorse, Ben Fries and Jesse Cain – who have also created memorable promos for the likes of Kindness, Holy Ghost, and Theophilus London.

The clip combines performance footage of Reptar’s lead singer Graham Ulicny , shot from several angles simultaneously to create a surreal and cubistic effect, with living tableaus. The tableaus depict the story of Saint Sebastian, the Christian saint and martyr and earliest gay icon, who was tied to a tree and shot with arrows before ultimately being clubbed to death for his criticism of the Emperor.

Friends have unveiled the video for their new single Mind Control. Shot by Hiro Murai, the clip combines band performance, action footage, and special effects, in a rhythmic montage cut to the Paul Epworth mixed track.  The band pay reverent homage to dystopian Sci-Fi films from the ‘80s (‘They Live,’ ‘Brainstorm,’ ‘Scanners’).  But the members take themselves less seriously in various roles in an apparently sinister brainwashing plot, evocative of the song’s over-the-top lyrical message (“Hold holy only what you want/Mind control everywhere/Is trying to keep your brain washed”).

Mind Control is guaranteed to be unlike anything else you’ll watch this year.  It’s Friends’ most ambitious video to date, following the lower-budget viral sensations for their singles Friend Crush and I’m His Girl.

Burn The Fruit (Pegasus), directed by Brian Ziffer, further consolidates Seventeen Evergreen’s consistency in producing highly creative visual art around their music.

“The video is a continued exploration in real-time audiovisual cinema. A kind of ‘visual music’ where the process involves manipulating video in real time. With help from the Syphon Recorder, VDMX and other customized tools, the performance and capture of these live video mixes became analogous to the process of mixing and mastering music.” Seventeen Evergreen’s Caleb Pate.

Directed & Produced By Brian Ziffer
Studio : Percept Visual
Featuring: Caleb Pate & Nephi Evans / Seventeen Evergreen
Dancer: Monet Sexauer
Special Thanks to VDMX, v002, & Juliya Lezhen

Directed by Ross Brubeck

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Meina Kalayeh
Breezy Mayo

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Jace Bartet
Alan Kahler
Max Kochinke
Genevieve Ludwig
Filmed in Bastrop, TX & Philadelphia PA Mar. & Apr. 2012

We are delighted to announce that we will be releasing Reptar’s debut full-length album, Body Faucet, on July 2^nd.  Produced by Ben Allen (Animal Collective, Gnarls Barkley, Bombay Bicycle Club), Body Faucet is the follow up to the group’s heralded debut EP Oblangle Fizz Y’all, which The Sunday Times praised as, “thrillingly good, off-kilter art pop”

Building on the infectious dance-driven melodies established by the band on Oblangle Fizz Y’all, Body Faucet finds the band delving deeper into world-music influences to compliment their unique blend of danceable and electro infused pop. More information here.

“There’s a psychedelic vibe here, a sense of exploration which is mixed with the bravado, the imagination of Prince”. Clash Magazine

To celebrate the announcement we have this wonderfully surreal, moving and inventive video for album track Three Shining Suns, directed by Ross Brubeck.