"big stupid car with my name on the plate"
We Broke The World by Fast Friends who are from (respectively) the Bay Area, Boston, Denmark might be taken as a political statement or might be part of the cosmic joke that is life or might just be hellacious fun (and it is). Now when I say, We Broke The World, I mean as in Official Video. The song is crazy and catchy and sounds so good driving down Imperial Highway but the fucking video made me say, "whaaaaat?" out loud. When a sort of fat Guy Fieri appears, I first thought it was a static image but when he started rapping / singing, holy shit. It had hit the fan.
Tom Peyton (from the El Cerrito / SF Bay area), Ryan Spraker (Boston) and Frederik Thaae (Copenhagen, Denmark) all were hanging in Los Angeles when they wrote a rock song. That is when the artistic debauchery began. Your parents might of referred to them as trouble makers, your grandparents as scofflaws, I just refer to them as Fast Friends. Oh, and below the YouTube video they offer a download of the video to post anywhere you want.
Oh, and I warn you... the lyrics will slowly absorb into your brain and will make you think, make you wonder why you are here, why we are all here. It might even make you wonder about how fucking insane our capitalistic system base on materialism and hedonistic pleasures truly is (or maybe that was just me thinking this?)
-Robb Donker Curtius
THE FACTS AS WE KNOW THEM - PRESS NOTES:
Ive got an idea.
How about somehow impossibly you are born and then you move across the planet and then you move across the country and then you learn how to play trombone and then you buy a scanner and cut up a bunch of us weekly and then you finally grow up and then no parents and then too much parents and then you cry yourself to sleep because everything is as it should be/because everything has fallen apart and then cancer and then write rock songs with people you dont know and then write pop songs with people you love and then use other peoples amps at shows and then you finally figure out how to dress yourself and then you care too much about basketball and then divorce and then you stop eating meat and then you eat meatballs with veins showing in them and then emergency surgeries and then emergency phone calls and then finally figure out how to say something that matters to you in a way that other people can hear it.
Do that.
How about somehow impossibly you are born and then you move across the planet and then you move across the country and then you learn how to play trombone and then you buy a scanner and cut up a bunch of us weekly and then you finally grow up and then no parents and then too much parents and then you cry yourself to sleep because everything is as it should be/because everything has fallen apart and then cancer and then write rock songs with people you dont know and then write pop songs with people you love and then use other peoples amps at shows and then you finally figure out how to dress yourself and then you care too much about basketball and then divorce and then you stop eating meat and then you eat meatballs with veins showing in them and then emergency surgeries and then emergency phone calls and then finally figure out how to say something that matters to you in a way that other people can hear it.
Do that.
Fast Friends is a band that has been putting out music whenever they feel like it starting at the beginning of 2017 and are now very honored and shocked that Dine Alone Records wants to put out their jams. Tom Peyton, El Cerrito/SF Bay Area (Ex-Wallpaper, Ex-Royalty, Pitbull Fireball) Ryan Spraker, Billerica/Boston (Ex-Eli Paperboy Reed, Ex-Dry Hump, last Nickelback single) Frederik Thaae, Copenhagen, Denmark (Ex-A Kid Hereafter, Ex-Aqua yeah that Aqua ok fine he was the MD for a tour) started hanging out in 2015 in Los Angeles, California. All of this happened by accident. Fred, Ryan and Tom liked hanging out but didn’t know why they were hanging out and then they wrote a rock song. Then another one. Then that again until they realized that the only way these songs were going to come out was if they started a band and goddamit here I am writing this dumb bio.
They play shows like they are 16 year olds that know how to play their instruments finally but also are totally over it and would like to jump up on the bar but what if I fall and break my other hip? Tom and Ryan love basketball (Ryan=Celtics and he also plays in some rec leagues. Tom=Warriors and only watching.) Fred being from Denmark cheers the national handball team every Olympics. They find LA to provide the opportunity for a very comfortable lifestyle while also offering engaging cultural happenings but also plenty of room to feel crushingly alone existentially speaking and man it can be pretty filthy. One of the only things they have gotten good at in life is figuring out how to make loud, catchy music that makes people feel uncomfortable. At least I hope it makes you uncomfortable.
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