Les Gold – “All My Good Friends”
Les Gold continue their dominance as the progenitors of the “gloom disco/bummer fun” genre with their latest cut “All My Good Friends” (check our previous feature on them here). The new song has a revelatory progression as the warm tones and harmonies grow and layer on top of one another, each phrase describing the behavior of the people you are closest to. These friends sound worse and worse as the lyrics progress – like most things you hold close, problems only reveal themselves with a little distance and examination. Here are Les Gold talking about it and the track: “At the end of the day, one can’t exist without the other – we are our good friends, and they are us. With a poppy, summery, sing-along vibe to accompany the whole track, we wanted to create something that everyone will shout along to in celebration of the dumb decisions we[...]
