NATE SANGS: Warm yourselves to Friendly Fires

It's chilly outside and some people in DC still don't have power. This song goes out to you guys! ... Well... it would if you could read this.

Friendly Fires "Kiss of Life"

I used to work with someone who would play their Israeli radio on his speakers. Israel is about 7 hours ahead, so we'd actually be listening to their nightlife music. Anyways, the chorus of this song always came on when the announcer was saying stuff I didn't understand. So while this band hales from England – I always associate this song, oddly, with Israel and Israeli music.

"Kiss of Life" actually has a terrible music video... well, not terrible, so much as boring. That's my review of the video. My opinion on music videos, is that it should be a compliment to the music and genre style. I will not accept a band just playing in a setting that isn't a concert venue. Anyways, Ed Macfarlane (the lead singer) has this whispy voice that makes the chorus kind of sweeps us up and the beat is enough to throw some moves down on the dance floor.

Notable Lyrics

Rub that line out of the sky

I can feel the night crawl

A broken drum and tambourine

Rub that line out of the sky

I can see the clouds form

Taking shape in front of me

Also, in case you were wondering, I left my office at 1am and didn't get home until 3, after the storm. There were disabled/abandoned cars everywhere, downed trees and city blocks without power. Basically I was driving through a zombie movie, but replace zombie with snow.