All You Need Is Friends

 By Henry Lipput

While waiting for the release of his second album with Lisa Mychols (the first was one of my favorite albums of 2020), SUPER 8 is doing what he always does during a break: make more music.

The result this time is the wonderful new single “For My Friends” (Bandcamp). It’s the second “taster” (but I prefer to think of it as a “treat”) for his next solo album being released later this year on The Beautiful Music label.

“For My Friends” is a warm embrace as well as a salute to all of those people who help you through the tough times (like last year) and are there with you to celebrate the good ones.  

My alternative title for the song is “All You Need Is Friends” because SUPER 8 has channeled his inner George Martin to create the brilliant arrangements: there are strings and horns and the only thing could make this song better is if he flew in a snippet of his “Love Like Ours” song into the mix near the end. “For My Friends,” with its echoes of a certain Fab anthem from the Sixties, could easily turn into a sing-along with your best mates.

And this being a SUPER 8 single there is, of course, a video this time with photographs of his friends.

Next Time: Where we going fellas?