A quintet of multi-instrumentalists fronted by Samantha Urbani and Lesley Hann – pals since school – Friends are five stunning-looking Brooklynites making an ESG or Tom Tom Club-style hot summer racket.

They formed after Urbani’s home demos were heard when her soon-to-be bandmates were forced to briefly move into her Bushwick apartment while theirs was fumigated for bed bugs. Grabbing the best bits of new-wave, R&B, kraut, disco, afro-beat, soul, dance, dub and whatever-the-hell-else-they-fancy and whipping it up into a heady and humid polyrhythmic pulp, they played their first show just six days later – and Friends, as the saying goes, were forever.

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