"Before Your Eyes": Friendly Fires' Collaboration with The Asphodells Sounds Like Summer

As with so many of the best things in life this new collaboration came together across a (probably) sticky table at some bar (pub), where drinks were downed (pints), and, we'd hazard a guess, a couple of packets of chips (crisps). It was in this lubricated state that Friendly Fires, dance don Andrew Weatherall and Timothy J Fairplay—the latter two work under the moniker The Asphodells—decided to create sweet sweet music together.

The result is a double A-side, 12-inch single "Before Your Eyes"/"Velo" and you can listen to the first track premiering above. "Before Your Eyes" is seven minutes of hypnotic sonic euphoria—all gauzily subdued vocals, surround sound synths and a beat that you want to chug on to infinity and beyond.

"Before Your Eyes"/"Velo" is out on Friendly Fires label Telophase on March 31.

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Kim is Noisey's Style Editor and she dreams of summer and dancing in a heatwave all day every day. She's on Twitter - @theKTB