Folly Group Return With New Single "Strange Neighbour"

Photo by Matt Ritson

London's Folly Group have returned with their first new material since early last year, "Strange Neighbour," out via So Young Records, a motorik, accessible slice of paranoid funk and a track that shows yet further growth from a band who'd arrived so seemingly fully formed from the very beginning.

“Strange Neighbour walks a couple of related lines at once. Louis’s verses and choruses are an ode to community as it dematerialises. Urban areas become un-neighbourly as spiraling rents force most people our age to move annually, and that’s if they’re lucky. At the same time, when it was being written, we had a sense that some of the music our peers were making came from a sneering, holier-than-thou place, voyeuristically skewing strangers’ perspectives to misrepresent another point of view and make their own more righteous.

So, "Strange Neighbour" is about recognising your own strangeness and that of your neighbours, because when two people from opposing walks of life meet, who’s normal?”

Listen & watch the music video for “Strange Neighbour” below.