Philadelphia-based quartet Friendship, featuring Dan Wriggins, Peter Gill, Michael Cormier-O’Leary, and Jon Samuels have shared a video for their latest single “Free Association,” taken from their new album Caveman Wakes Up, out May 16 on Merge Records.
Dan Wriggins on ‘Free Association’:
Another one about love and other people and how the only hope we’ve got in the search for meaning is to make it up. I was hanging out with the folk singer Kath Bloom years ago in her yard, by the barn, and I think I made a comment on an ancient riding mower she had, and she said, “Yeah, everything we have was given to us.” “Born with a weak heart,” of course, swiped from David Byrne. The Mellotron sax and voice patch were both jokes that we ended up loving. Also the only song with synth bass. We’re proud as hell of the production.
As for the video, Zach Puls directed it. We went to Seaside Heights, NJ. Realized after the fact that Jersey Shore took place there. We were hunting for a lost empire, but I can’t reveal too much.