Fated Friendship – Robots Revenge 2

Croatia’s FFriend arrives via Robots Revenge on artisianal, hand-numbered heat. ‘Fated Friendship’ plays back like a recon mission gone sour, while cryptic third-person liners tell of a secretive visit to a terrestrial, outcast planet, decoupled from global systems. Across four concise pieces – ‘Break The Wall’, ‘Sulphate’, ‘Meditative’ and ‘Melancholia – FFriend refracts the need for cautious openness and diplomacy during the mission, which may or may not have happened at all. Each track lasts just a minute, yet the compressed runtime amplifies the intensity of the rhythms and tonal shifts, making it feel like a distilled message from a distant, outlying outpost, as allegiances disintegrate in the back of beyond…