ANNOUNCE NEW ALBUM
‘PALA’
Mercury Prize nominated trio Friendly Fires are delighted to announce the release of their second album Pala.
Named after the island in Aldous Huxley’s 1962 novel ‘Island’, Pala has been produced by Friendly Fires themselves and Paul Epworth (award winning producer with credits including Bloc Party, Cee-Lo Green, Florence and the Machine, remixes for Santigold and P. Diddy). The album was recorded over the past twelve months in various locations including London, St. Albans, Rye in Sussex, Yvetot in France, and New York.
Pala is set to build on the success of Friendly Fires’ eponymous debut self-titled album that was released in September 2008, and went on to sell over 200,000 copies in the UK, picking up a Mercury Prize nomination and two Brit Awards nominations along the way.
The artwork for Pala features a beautiful photograph of a parrot from a personal project of famed fashion photographer Sølve Sundsbø (Dazed and Confused, Yves Saint Laurent, Coldplay, Alexander McQueen) while the album also sees musical collaborations with America’s premier gospel choir -the world famous Harlem Gospel Choir (on ‘Hurting’) and Holy Ghost’s Alex Frankel (who plays Clavinet on ‘True Love’).
The first single from the album is ‘Live Those Days Tonight’. Friendly Fires will debut the single with a television performance on popular American show Late Night With Jimmy Fallon, which is set to air tonight, Wednesday 23 March.
Friendly Fires have toured Australia twice, selling out headline shows, performing at Splendour In The Grass and touring nationwide with the Good Vibrations Festival alongside the likes of Faithless, The Ting Tings, Erykah Badu, Kelis, Ludacris, Nas and Damien Marley.
Check out the new single ‘Live Those Days Tonight’ HERE
Pala
Track-listing:
1. Live Those Days Tonight
2. Blue Cassette
3. Running Away
4. Hawaiian Air
5. Hurting
6. Pala
7. Show Me Lights
8. True Love
9. Pull Me Back to Earth
10. Chimes
11. Helpless
Friendly Fires – Pala is out May 13 2011 on XL Recordings / Remote Control
www.wearefriendlyfires.com
