All-female four piece Friedberg return with brand new single ‘haha’, produced by Dan Carey (Hot Chip, Fontaines D.C, Wet Leg), stream here. Their first release of the year comes shortly after they were announced to support LCD Soundsystem on the 12th – 15th June, the first four shows of an epic eight date residency at London’s Brixton Academy.
Making a bold departure from their signature alt-rock roots, ‘haha’, at just 2:01 long, is driven by electronic beats, distorted textures, and an industrial edge. Moody, abrasive, and charged with a sense of controlled chaos, it signals a fearless evolution in Friedberg’s sound.
The music video is a plunge into a dark, hallucinatory world where tribal-infused contemporary dance meets surreal thrill. Set in a shifting dreamscape of shadows, smoke, and glitching light, which sees flashes of the Anna appear throughout – distorted, fleeting, and unsettling.
Speaking on the new single, frontwoman Anna of Friedberg says “We were just messing around at Dan’s (Carey) studio, started up the drum machine, I started singing the vocal line and then Dan hit that synth in the chorus, and we both looked at each other like, ‘Ok, that’s it…’ . It came together so quick and I just love when that happens. The song kinda spiralled from there — into this thing about curated perfection, someone who’s mastered the mirror but lost the plot. Spinning in the void between Selbstbild and Fremdbild. It drives me mad and also kind of makes me think: How do you leave the performance before it rewrites you?”
Friedberg also proved their music well and truly translates to the stage, with live shows which saw them play at SXSW and Great Escape Festival, touring the US with German indie rock band Giant Rooks, and supports with Black Country duo Big Special and British alt-rock band Placebo, as well as play their debut headline shows at London’s 100 Club, The Lexington and The Windmill.
FRIEDBERG 2025 UK LIVE DATES
12 June – LCD Soundsystem support – O2 Academy Brixton, London, UK
13 June – LCD Soundsystem support – O2 Academy Brixton, London, UK
14 June – LCD Soundsystem support – O2 Academy Brixton, London, UK
15 June – LCD Soundsystem support – O2 Academy Brixton, London, UK
19 July – Homestead Festival, Somerset, UK
01 August – Camp Bestival, Dorset, UK
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