Where "Secrets Adrift" is improvised and intimate, Friendly Fire is focused and comunicating. It's more subtle and friendly, Erik says. But we all know he's just inviting us deeper into his secret micro cosmos. A work of true originality.

Erik de Vahl has prepared a shimmering musical mini-universe of his own, for you to peep in to. Seems like he built it from the broken pieces, noises and leftovers from conventional songwriting. Listening to the anti-structured pop fragments feels like a new friend secretly telling you secrets.