Alt-rock four-piece Late Night Friends repurposes the light atmospherics of late eighties college rock and early aughts American chart-rock with a modern slant on their debut full-length What I Think I’m Not. Due on August 7 via Limited Fanfare Records, the album approaches its influences with a chameleonic quality that allows them to slip into melancholic naval-gazing and life-size anthems in equal measure. With Dead Meadow bassist Steve Kille handling the controls, the entirety of the album has that shimmering, U2-like production polish that permits these limpid, bright-eyed songs to really extend upon their straightforward, yet thoroughly sonorous modern rock approach.
Late Night Friends are currently streaming the whole thing over at Pop Matters. And make sure to join them on their album release tonight at the Satellite. – Juan Rodríguez