Brooklyn-based artist Avery Friedman has releases single "Photo Booth”
Brooklyn-based artist Avery Friedman has released "Photo Booth," the second single from 'New Thing,' her April 18th debut album. "Photo Booth" features James Chrisman (Sister. / CIAO MALZ), Ryan Cox (Club Aqua) and Felix Walworth (Florist / Told Slant).
Of the new single, Avery Friedman says:
“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.”
Previously, Friedman had always felt that songwriting was just something that other people did until she was pushed by a transcendent live music experience and a traumatic mugging to seek catharsis through music. Playing her first show in July 2024, she soon shared stages with h. pruz, Dead Gowns, and Sister., and she impressed the latter’s James Chrisman enough that he offered to record her debut album. The result was ‘New Thing,’ a sonically deep and layered debut that sees Friedman explore her trauma and queerness with a raw open-heartedness inspired by artists like Adrianne Lenker, Squirrel Flower, and Babehoven.
"Photo Booth" is available now via Bandcamp - https://averyfriedman.bandcamp.com/album/new-thing
Her "Flowers Fell" single is also out now:
