Best Friends Forever - Special Limited Edition 2007 Tour EP

I'm a sucker for an interesting cover and a low price. You know this because you're already on the lookout for posts with the meet me in the dollar bin label. So even though I knew nothing about Best Friends Forever, I had to pick this up last year when I found it at a Goodwill wedged between a pair of Laserlight classical releases. This Minneapolis trio made records for 11 years, a number of them for Plan-It-X, yet I'd never heard of them. I feel like I would have booked these folks at some point on either side of my first marriage.

This was a very pleasant surprise. I want to avoid using terms like "sweet" or "naive" to describe this, although it wouldn't be a stretch to use either. You could power a small town with the energy and joy on these tracks. There's a through line from the Shaggs and Beat Happening to Best Friends Forever. This is, very literally (if you're to believe the press on BFF), the sound of best friends making primitive pop music together. You get three tracks from a 2007 radio session, and the two songs from BFF's 2003 split with Everybell and Whistle, all burnt onto a limited-to-150-copies CDr. Enjoy!

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