First Look: The Fake Friends – ‘Good Enough’

The Fake Friends Location: Montreal, QC Album: Good Enough, out May 20th via Stomp Records You know all those times you and your partner are arguing about where to go for dinner? Sometimes it’s not that you know what you want. It’s just that you know exactly what you don’t want. The Fake Friends may or may not agree on food choices, but they absolutely knew what they didn’t want to do with their Stomp Records debut. That guiding (negative?) light served as a wonderful creative north star. Good Enough goes well beyond its namesake to deliver the kind of hardcore-tinged melodic punk that gets the blood flowing. Delivering some of the best hooks in the business is just a side effect. Bassist Sergio Da Silva expands on that notion: “Honestly, knowing what we don’t want to do has been more of a...

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