You’re Only Young Once But You Can Be Stupid Forever: CD Julie Byrne Friends I Know

Friends I Know

Pixies and Tame Impala number among notable influences

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among them his breakthrough dance track “Go”

This summer they will be touring arenas across Europe and the UK with Iron Maiden

You’re Only Young Once But You Can Be Stupid Forever: CD Julie Byrne Friends I KnowA collection of warmly melodic electronic sketches, with tracks alternately drifting beatless on the breeze or underpinned by lo fi drums, sometimes barely held together with a delicate construction of odd synth patches and ping pong percussion. Each piece is short and to the point, a record of perfect miniatures. Whilst this description may sound utopian, the album is conceived around themes of late stage capitalist brutality, hyper consumerism,