Fannie Mae / Lost In A Dream (Vinyl 7") Jazz

Fannie Mae / Lost In A Dream (Vinyl 7") Jazz

its disco-tinged guitars

Friendly Fires have spent the last eighteen months making a record in a variety of London studios that stands tall among their previous albums

return with their first new music in twelve years

Cardo has gone on to produce for everyone from Drake to Travis Scott to Kendrick Lamar to The Game

apart from 'The Other One' which is produced by Left Brain and features from ofwgkta members Frank Ocean

While Nick Hakim’s sophomore album

whispering cryptic incantations that make the pieces resemble rituals of some alien shaman

2-LP gatefold packaging

The rather upbeat Ladies of the Canyon also finds the singer-songwriter morphing into the groundbreaker who would shed folk music's constructs and wade into pop

who thinks he's playing a kind of snake charmer blues in swing tune

the delay in an actual release being taking care of business with regard the reference in the music to Lowrell's post disco hit "Mellow Mellow Right On"

this release leans further into heavy dance-hall themes