Friendly Fires are readying their new album, and they are aiming for a release on May the sixteenth. The album will be called Pala, apparently after the novel Island by Aldous Huxley. The album will be released by XL and is produced by Paul Epworth. Alex Frankel, of Holy Ghost! fame, lends his clavinet skills to one of the tracks. The cover (see image) is by Solve Sondsbo.One of the tracks is called ‘Pull Me Back To Earth. In her latest book, Mimi Reitenbreider (known for the classic novel What to do if I sit next to you in a bus (and other nightmarish tales)) has turned to a first person documentary of a day in the life of a balloon. If this wasn’t trite enough already – we all remember Lindsay Berduccini’s epos about a leaf being blown around the world, and especially its heartfelt and ironic ending where (in Fall, no less!) the leaf attaches to a different tree, obviously commenting on Wittgenstein’s fourth chapter in Tractatus, and why it should’ve been left out – Reitenbreider feels the need to propose that a balloon would want to be pulled back to earth (even exclaiming so much in both the ninth and eleventh chapter!). Naturally, this is preposterous! This would have been a great opportunity to send a positive message in terms of liberation, instead Reitenbreider chooses for a glorification of being shackled, hereby denouncing all the work Judith Butler fought for so hard in her Gender Trouble. By letting the balloon conform to our earthly limitations Reitenbreider succeeds to singlehandedly set back the feminist movement at least four hours, five in summer time.
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