Friedberg, the London-based collective formed by the Austrian-born Anna Friedberg, today announce their irrepressible second album, Goodwife, for release on 9 April 2027 via Clouds Hill. Co-produced by Anna, German composer and dance musician Daniel Brandt and Oli Bayston (aka Boxed In), the record bursts with the spirit of collaboration and live performance.
Goodwife might ring with the playful, irreverent spirit of nights spent on the dancefloor, but at its heart lies a story that fights for that level of freedom. Anna Friedberg (writer, vocals, guitar, percussion, cowbells) remembers her grandmother as “a really strong woman”. “She lived in the countryside her whole life, but she was very smart and read lots of books and learnt French in her 70’s and was into poetry,” she smiles. Tied to a husband who “couldn’t handle her having a life outside of him”, however, she found herself stuck in an abusive marriage. On Goodwife’s title track, replete with cheeky nods to Inner City’s 1988 banger ‘Good Life’ and shared today as the album’s first single, Anna imagines a way to “rewrite her past” and give her a new ending. “To me,” she says, “this new ‘Goodwife’ is leaving co-dependency behind and being good to herself rather than to everyone else. A message that feels, sadly, more urgent than ever given everything happening in the world right now around women’s safety and autonomy.”
The track was co-produced by Anna Friedberg with Daniel Brandt and Hot Chip’s Al Doyle and Joe Goddard in their Shoreditch studio. “We were just jamming on all their amazing synthesisers, it was so much fun,” Anna recalls. “One of my favourite memories from the whole album is standing on Hot Chip’s studio dancefloor, margarita in hand, listening back to our tracks at an abnormally loud volume.”
Goodwife:
- Tomorrow
- Understanding
- Come See Mine
- Tricky Situation
- Mitsubishi
- Goodwife
- Vera
- Copy Copy
- Partymus
- That’ll Do
- La Grande Bouffe On Rewind
- Get Down With Schneider
- Call Your Mum
