Friends&

“here is what it feels like to listen to [friends&]. An absolutely disorienting experience, one that makes you feel like you are being dropped into a swirling ocean of sound–tones and noises, familiar and unfamiliar, rocket from one channel to another, coming back in various distorted and undistorted forms, melodies coalesce and dissipate–a totalizing, sensorily all-encompassing feeling. But one that is never not friendly and inviting! Because, thing is, [friends&] is more than anything else a dance-pop [band]–there are hooks for years… hummable melodies and shining, beautiful tones, and propulsive, electrifying rhythms. Sometimes it feels like overcomplex noise, but other times something so pure and melodic and direct will come out that it hits you right between the eyes.”
– merton, folx RYM review, February 17, 2026

friends& is a four-piece pop band featuring bc power, ct pond [aka Amateur Painter], jc grame [aka tirestires], and jksims. we plunder and collage glitch pop, folktronica and neo-psychedelia to produce maximalist electronic dance music. our debut album, folx, was recently released on dawk26 records.