Label: XL Recordings
Artist: Friendly Fires
Album: Pala
Think Lex Luther but with hair. It's effective (as in Lex is still the bad guy), but just in a different, less hard-hitting manner (i.e. Lex isn't as scary, but he'll still go for the kryptonite).
They seemingly take a lot more of the 80s to town, with this record displaying a heavy disco influence. The slight change of direction is refreshing, but maintains the regular Friendly Fires vibe set from their first record. It's a good call - nobody wants to listen to a repeat version, but everyone loves tracks like 'Jump In the Pool' and 'Skeleton Boy'.
Pala as a tangible entity was physically grafted by our Co's Think Tank Media (small plug), of which all of their works & life-story can be read up here:
http://www.thinktankmedia.co.uk/
Well worth a visit.
Release date: 1st January 70