special friend Archives - She Makes Music https://shemakesmusic.co.uk/tag/special-friend/ Focusing on the best new music made by female-identifying and non-binary artists. Thu, 15 Jan 2026 21:30:26 +0000 en hourly 1 https://shemakesmusic.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/cropped-SMM-Logo-Black-1-32x32.png special friend Archives - She Makes Music https://shemakesmusic.co.uk/tag/special-friend/ 32 32 Special Friend announce third album Clipping; share new single/video ‘Breakfast’ https://shemakesmusic.co.uk/news/special-friend-announce-third-album-clipping-share-new-single-video-breakfast/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=special-friend-announce-third-album-clipping-share-new-single-video-breakfast Thu, 15 Jan 2026 09:00:00 +0000 https://shemakesmusic.co.uk/?p=16288 Special Friend have become the masters of weaving elegant and sophisticated pop musical webs while staying true to their DIY roots.  The French/American duo (Guillaume on guitar and vocals, Erica on drums and vocals) manage to create a sound like no other band.  When they play live, audiences marvel at the huge, intricate structures the

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]]> Special Friend have become the masters of weaving elegant and sophisticated pop musical webs while staying true to their DIY roots.  The French/American duo (Guillaume on guitar and vocals, Erica on drums and vocals) manage to create a sound like no other band.  When they play live, audiences marvel at the huge, intricate structures the band construct, while falling in love with the crystal-clear vocal melodies that are threaded in between the shards of guitar and the rattle of the drums.  How can a duo achieve so much?  UK audiences will be able to ponder this question in March: Special Friend are coming over from France to do a substantial tour of the UK.

The new album is more diverse that the last, with the high-tempo indiepop of first single ‘Breakfast’ (out today – watch the video below), the majestic, Yo La Tengo-like dreampop of ‘Clipping’ and the country-ish, gentle, homesick melancholy of ‘Isolation’.  Final track ‘OOO’ is a bold piece of Krautrock-inspired experimentation; ‘Mold’ is a beautiful slice of slowcore and opener ‘Paint A Picture’ is modern pop at its catchiest and most direct. 

‘Clipping’, the album title, refers to the discipline of pruning growth back, removing dead wood to create a perfectly shaped tree with abundant blossoms: an accurate description of the album, and of the songs that hang from its elegant branches.  The album artwork is by Erica: Special Friend are in control of every aspect of this elegant artefact. Clipping will be released March 20.

Clipping:

  1. Paints a picture
  2. Clipping
  3. Isolation
  4. Theoretical
  5. Breakfast
  6. Mold
  7. Nothing
  8. Unwound
  9. Mustard
  10. Village
  11. Sanctuary
  12. OOO

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