Real Friends Are Growing Up: A Conversation With Kyle Fasel
On May 27, Chicago pop-punk band Real Friends will release their sophomore LP, The Home Inside My Head. The title of the album seems to wholly encapsulate who the band are in 2016: Nice dudes intensely invested in the relationships around them, the people they choose to get close to. It makes for a lot of self-reflection and a record that attempts to tackle it.
Their debut full-length, 2014's Maybe This Place Is the Same and We're Just Changing, did something similar by positioning the narrative of growth in leaving a toxic, romantic relationship. The Home is even more internalized: this is the sound of growing up.
We sat down with bassist/main songwriter Kyle Fasel of the band to talk about their next release, that Kanye West song and more.
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