This here is some music made with a 22 yr old toy keyboard, an assortment of profoundly mediocre guitar accessories, and the occasional walkie talkie or remote control car joystick. If you have old toy keyboards, walkie talkies, or R/C car remotes that you don't want, get in touch. I'll trade you a cd for them.
I'm also in a band called Parts & Labor.
Press:
"The music he ends up with sounds like little else out there, a heaving mass of static beats, monolithic distortion, and bending, diving tones... I hesitate to throw out the word "experimental" in most cases, but here I think it's warranted, as Friel's music is quite explicitly designed to test the sonic possibilities of a set group of objects and explore as much of that ground as is reasonably possible on an EP. In that, he succeeds beautifully, crafting a unique and uncompromising sound that ultimately transcends its limitations."
- Joe Tangari, Pitchfork
"Burning with ideas, he has a knack for making his cheap drum machines, blipping remote controls and preprogrammed toys sound like injured robots stumbling through a raging fire.... Throughout, each track feels both organically real-time and inevitably prefabricated, giving Sunburn an intoxicating friction, lit with the energy of bombed-out machinery and loose-limbed brainpower."
- Marc Masters, The Wire
"Strange and wonderful, and best of all, unlike anything we can think of"
- Mike Wolf, Time Out New York
Discography:
Ghost Town
(CD/LP released by Important Records 2008)
Obsoleter
(cassette released by Night People 2006/2005 - OUT OF PRINT)
Sunburn (CD released by Velocirecords 2004)
Broken Man Going To Work (self released CD 2001)
Booking, mail order, friendship:
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