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Formats and Editions
1. Lies Lies Lies
2. Into The Sun
3. Bye Bye
4. Nikky Don't Cry
5. Stay For A While
6. Butterfly Man
7. Hesitant Smile
8. Hey Jo
9. Weary Eyes
10. Sky High
11. House On The Hill
12. Believe Me
13. Running
14. Remembrance Day
15. On Saturday
16. Visions
17. Another Day
More Info:
The sixth Friends album sees the band switch off the electricity and present a largely acoustic and stripped-down set of 17 songs. Focussing on male/female vocals, acoustic guitar and percussion, augmented by occasional brass, string quartet and bass, the songs range from one-minute wonders such as Stay For A While to the nine-minute millennial anthem Visions. Stylistically Folk Songs covers classic Friends indiepop as well as classical and folk influences, but these are emphatically not folk songs - the title alludes to the songs' subject matter, largely people and places, and their mainly unplugged treatment. From the blissed-out pastoral pop of Into the Sun to the urban angst of On Saturday, clocking in at just over an hour, Folk Songs is pure essence of Friends, with some of the band's most personal and direct material ever recorded. 'Stripping a jangly, romantic pop sound down to gorgeous voices, acoustic guitar and percussion while opening the arrangements up to brass and strings here and there, the result is an hour of wistful, seamless, summery haze with a couple of harder-edged tracks to keep the blissful somnambulance at bay. ' (Q Magazine)
