Kiss of Life - Friendly Fires
I guess I need this “old news tune” posted because I got REALLY excited the British were coming to town. Not too mention this video is so totally the epitome of world music style drumming made accessible and sexy (not that that last part even needed to be stated).
Their album Pala was released in May of this year and it’s all I wanted and more. It’s one of those albums that could be found on a marathon running playlist to a dancing your face off playlist to a mix late night for getting it on with some anonymous stranger while you met doing the latter. I guess what those three things have in common is they are the most primal of motives.
I may be partial due to the fact that the album title, Pala, came from Huxley’s novel Island, which features a shipwrecked journalist on a utopian island and I’m a sucker for literary references.
Regardless, I find it absolutely essential that this is a song to sweat to…I guess Friendly Fires lives up to their name. Hot hot hot.
