Album Review: So Obsene – Friendly Foes

Friendly Foes has a didactic name and there’s two seperate voices emerging on their new So Obscene EP . I don’t mean just the voices of frontman Ryan Allen and singer Liz Wittman. There’s the first two tracks “How It Works” and “Keep Breathing” which fly by like a car filled with sugar-high teenagers on a summer day. “Keep Breathing” is definitely the stand out song from this release. Wittman’s voice has an attitude and sexiness you can believe in, accompanied well with Allen’s fuzzy lively guitar, and the boisterous bumpings of new drummer Sean Sommer. The other half of the EP slows in both tempo and enjoyability. “Paint It Gold” and “Line Up” seem like they’ve been done before to the point where they’re a copy of a copy duo of pop songs that escaped the mid-nineties. You don’t know what you’ll get when you party with your frienemies, just like Friendly Foes’ So Obscene.

FEATURED TRACK:
“How It Works” – Friendly Foes

So Obscene will be released on 7″ record on October 10th from Gangplank Records.  The official release show will be October 10th at the Berkley Front with the Javelins and Allan James and the Cold Wave.