Invitation

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Invitation is the debut album by Filthy Friends, the new supergroup from Corin Tucker (Sleater-Kinney), Peter Buck (R.E.M.), Kurt Bloch (The Fastbacks), Scott McCaughey (Young Fresh Fellows, The Minus 5) and Bill Rieflin (King Crimson).

The 12-song collection works through a flurry of different moods and styles, genre exercises and joyous experiments. The intricate guitar knots and blasts of bubblegum pop of Bucks beloved Television are all over the herky-jerky Windmill. A mashup of 60s downer vibes and rootsy rumblings makes up the marvelous Second Life whereas Come Back Shelley is all swagger and glitz in the style of a lost glam rock 45. There aint nothing this band cant do with the wet clay of rock music and what they sculpt out of it is pure art.

Peter Buck knew he wanted to be in a band with Corin Tucker from the first time he saw Sleater-Kinney play to an empty room in 1997. It was the day that Princess Diana died, the former R.E.M. guitarist says. I remember thinking, Where did these people come from? It was a totally unique take on what punk rock was. He told Rolling Stone.