EP Review: Fickle Friends - 'Weird Years (Season One)'

Fickle Friends are back and ready to administer a much-needed dose of sunshine to 2021 with their infectious new EP ‘Weird Years (Season One)’. 

This Brighton four-piece have always seemed to be there when thinking about the UK indie scene, before their 2018 debut ‘You Are Someone Else’ broke them out of that mould and into one of the darlings of the genre with their heavily retro-influenced indie-pop which has an annoyingly brilliantly talent of burying itself inside your ears. 

It all looked set for the quartet to make their long-awaited return in 2020, but then 2020 happened. But pandemic or not, it certainly didn’t stop them from teasing us with four singles in total, two of which feature on the first season of ‘Weird Years’. 

Now split into seasons, this is the first piece of the band’s new album project which narrates what has been a few years of weirdness for the quartet which gives this project its name – the first edition is true to what we’ve come to know from Fickle Friends which is infectious indie-pop. 

Previous singles ‘What A Time’ and ‘Million’ will really appeal to fans who’ve longed for the return of the Fickle Friends sound. A personal favourite was new track ‘IRL’, following all the similar beats, but a banging chorus really takes it to another level and sets it apart whilst ‘Finish Line’ alludes to what we can expect in future seasons. 

‘Weird Years (Season One)’ is a truly welcome return to form for Fickle Friends as the kings and Queen of indie-pop and sets up what we can expect to be an exciting and transformative year for this four-piece.

Words by Danial Kennedy

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