Avery Friedman - Photo Booth
Brooklyn-based singer/songwriter Avery Friedman delights with the exquisite "Photo Booth," together with the equally appealing, yet quieter "Flowers Fell." Both will be on Avery Friedman's upcoming album New Thing, released via Audio Antihero on April 18, 2025.
It's pretty fascinating how "Photo Booth" plays with different feelings, switching between cozy and beautiful to slightly uncomfortable and seemingly dissonant but then again not. This all makes for an exceptionally interesting and ultimately alluring and long lasting listening experience. Lyrically, I am pretty sure we all can relate in one way or another to Avery's experience with a night out and a photo booth. But did any of us put it into a song? I undoubtedly can recall surprisingly many such events and no matter what, these photo strips are all priceless memories that I still cherish, years, make this decades, later! Avery says about "Photo Booth:"
“I wrote this song after a vibrant night out with my friends last winter – a night memorialized by many chaotic photo booth strips. Something about the novelty, containment and ephemerality of a photo booth just invites a sort of flirtatious mischief. This night out in particular felt like an encapsulation of spin-the-bottle-type ‘second adolescence’ that many queer people experience when coming into themselves after their adolescent years pass. This song really came into itself when we decentered my guitar, and surrendered to the more chaotic, pop-adjacent production it was asking for.”
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