Friendly Fires Second Album | livemusic.fm

Friendly Fires have revealed that work has begun on recording their second album. As with their debut, frontman Ed Macfarlane will handle production, although he says he has more of an idea what he's doing this time around. Speaking to BBC 6music, Macfarlane said: "Production-wise, I really know what I'm doing now, whereas before, on the first record, it was kind of like a learning process for us. We weren't even using pop shields [on our mics] - this microphone I'm speaking into now was probably better than the microphone we actually used to record our album - but this time around, we've done it properly in that sense, so it sounds fantastic". He added that the band were trying to get the new long player finished as quickly as possible, but without rushing things too much: "We want to get it done by May, but I can't promise that will happen. I think the goal is to get it out as soon as possible, but for it also to be as good as possible. I don't want to fall into that trap of rushing an album out and then regretting it". But if you can't wait while the band get the new album right, the Fires have another release coming sooner than that, a split single with Holy Ghost, which will see them covering the dance duo's track 'Hold On', while Holy Ghost have covered their song 'On Board'. That'll be release on 12" and download on 8 Mar.