Friendship have shared news of their new album ‘Love the Stranger‘ (29th July on Merge) with the track ‘Hank‘ – coming in as if David Burman found his way onto one of those early Real Estate bumpers.
Friendship’s Dan Wriggins, a manual labourer and poet, says the single is “a song about when you go to fix something that’s broken and realize the tools you’re supposed to fix it with are also broken.”
American comedian Joe Pera has distilled 10+ hours of footage into this stunning visual – shot on Little Cranberry Island in Maine.
“Dan Wriggins sent me the Friendship album and as soon as I finished listening, I asked if I could possibly direct a video for it.
While brainstorming concepts with Dan and Michael Cormier-O’Leary, we came upon the idea of going to Little Cranberry Island in Maine, where Dan has family roots and used to work as a lobster fisherman. We spent a few early spring days on the island going to the bathroom in an outhouse and following the workdays of two of the most interesting people Dan knows there, Henry, a carpenter, and Kaitlyn, an artist.
Editor Grant Farsi helped sort out the 10+ hours of footage me and Michael Kaplan shot, and that’s the story of the video. Me and Friendship are hoping it will get a million views on YouTube and lead to a collaboration with Shakira.”
Friendship are guitarist Peter Gill, drummer Michael Cormier-O’Leary, bassist Jon Samuels, and hawkeyed balladeer Dan Wriggins.
Pre-Order Love the Stranger: https://lnk.to/Friendship
Bandcamp: https://friendshipphl.bandcamp.com/album/love-the-stranger