Friendly Fires are a English electronic post-punk band based in St.Albans. Influenced by 80′s and 90′s Dance & Electronic music, as well as the stylings of post-hardcore bands such as My Bloody Valentine (i know…strange combination…explanation: they were all previously in a post-hardcore band before Friendly Fires)

They are going to be at Radio 1′s Big Weekend as well as Reading and Leeds festival this year.

Skeleton Boy – Friendly Fires

White Lies are already gaining a lot of fame, we’ve been meaning to write about them for quite some time but they’ve always seemed to be pushed to the next day since we started this site. When asked for the meaning behind their name “Why White Lies? Because white lies are common but quite dark, and that’s how we see ourselves,” This is quite clearly seen in their music

White Lies – Death

White Lies – E.S.T.

White Lies – From The Stars

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Stewart Mason, All Music Guide wrote “White Lies claim Joy Division, the Teardrop Explodes and Echo & the Bunnymen as key influences. Indeed, the dark-edged trio are so committed to the U.K. post-punk scene that the young London trio signed to Fiction Records, a Polydor imprint best known for its ’80s releases by the Cure and the Associates. Singer and guitarist Harry McVeigh, bassist and lyricist Charles Cave, and drummer and keyboardist Jack Lawrence Brown originally formed the group as school friends in their native West London under the name Fear of Flying in 2004. After two neo-Brit-pop 2006 singles on the Young and Lost Club label, “Routemaster” (produced by Brit-pop mainstay Stephen Street) and “Three’s a Crowd,” the trio changed musical directions, creating doomy material like the funereal murder ballad “Unfinished Business” and the self-explanatory “Death,” changing their name and adapting a new and more somber group persona. Following the release of the Nick Cave-like “Unfinished Business” in April 2008, the trio made their television debut on Later with Jools Holland and began recording their debut album with producers Ed Buller and Max Dingel. Second single “Death” was announced as a September 2008 release, coinciding with the trio’s first tour of the U.K. as headliners. “