CHRIS SEARLE recommends a work of love and deep admiration for a great musician
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Love The Stranger
(Merge)
⭑⭑⭑⭑
HAVING recorded three albums on tiny independent record labels, Philadelphia indie four-piece Friendship make their major independent label debut with Love The Stranger.
Playing unhurried lo-fi Americana, the band have created a downbeat masterwork in the same vein as classic 90s records from Joe Pernice’s Scud Mountain Boys and David Berman’s Silver Jews.
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