Released in 2005, this self-titled CD format debut by International Friends is a multi textured sound odyssey with an oddly unclassifiable quality. Ambient sound FX segments bridge together tracks that range in tone and tempo from Screwed to trance. Liberal use of delay and kids keyboards throughout. This collection of International Friends compositions is still weird, but it’s more “easy listening” than their one take tape recorded jams.

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Viper in a Pre Dawn Raid is the first collection of solo synth pop folk ballads from Ethan Higbee of International Friends. In the spirit of the work of home recording artists like R. Stevie Moore and Ariel Pink, Pre Dawn Raid is a bedroom 4-track style album, but with more synthesizers and 16th note hi-hats. This album is one of the most interesting singer/songwiter albums of 2007 because nahte doesn't bore you to death with love songs that don't go anywhere. Each one of these tunes bears fruit from a direction you don't expect.

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