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Friendly Fires: Skeleton Boy (Video)

7:45 p.m. · January 15, 2009 · by Matthew Richardson

You know, it'd be easy to write Friendly Fires off as another nauseating all-male dance pop band, jocking for the attention of Coldplay fans who want to take a dip into the maybe alternative, but all of the evidence goes to show that that's not true. So far Friendly Fires seems smart and self-aware, combining the best elements of their counterparts and leaving behind the chaff. This video for "Skeleton Boy" has the band dressed in black bodysuits and looking a little like disembodied heads, until everything goes dark and they turn into skeletons. Even the most skeptical of music scribes has to appreciate singer Ed Macfarlane's skeleton dance. Friendly Fires' self-titled debut is out now on XL. [Stereogum]