Friendly Fires — Pala

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Friendly Fires’ 2008 eponymous debut introduced a promising band with an uncanny knack for songwriting, but it also revealed the them as genre neophytes, trying on bygone musical styles like vintage clothing. With <i>Pala</i>, the Hertfordshire, England–based trio solidify their sound. Over a dance-punk foundation, Friendly Fires trim their tunes with trace elements of disco, soul, dream-pop, and post-punk. The instantly winsome “Live Those Days Tonight” opens, pulsing on cosmopolitan dance-pop. Without reverting to retro rehash, the tune recalls moments of neon brilliance last heard in 1986. The following “Blue Cassette” starts like an early Daft Punk outtake before unraveling into a gigantic swooning anthem where the band somehow fuses a '80s New Romantic–flavored chorus with verses enveloped in electro-pop. This creates a well-oiled machine of innovative, kinetic dance music loaded to the gills with pop hooks. “Hurting” is another solid standout, where glossy disco rhythms and blue-eyed soul melodies braid together. “Pull Me Back to Earth” remains festive amid its gauzy soundscapes.

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Friendly Fires

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  1. Live Those Days Tonight 5:01
  2. Blue Cassette 3:31
  3. Running Away 3:02
  4. Hawaiian Air 4:12
  5. Hurting 5:02
  6. Pala 4:00
  7. Show Me Lights 3:35
  8. True Love 3:15
  9. Pull Me Back to Earth 3:30
  10. Chimes 4:37
  11. Helpless 4:29
  12. Strangelove 4:38