Friedberg Goodwife Picture Disc Vinyl

Goodwife - the irrepressible second album from London-based Friedberg might ring with the playful, irreverent spirit of nights spent on the dancefloor, but at its heart lies a story that fights for that level of freedom.Austria-born singer Anna Friedberg remembers her grandmother as “a really strong woman”. “She lived in the countryside for her whole life, but she was very smart and read lots of books and learnt French in her 70s and was into poetry,” she smiles. Tied to a husband who “couldn’t handle her having a life outside of him”, however, she found herself stuck in an abusive marriage. On Goodwife’s title track (replete with cheeky nods to Inner City’s 1988 banger “Good Life”), Anna imagines a way to “rewrite her past” and give her a new ending. “To me, she says, “this new ‘Goodwife’ is leaving co-dependency behind and being good to herself rather than to everyone else.”Though “Goodwife” is the record’s emotional core, there’s a joie de vivre to its intentions that rings throughout the whole album. Following on from critically acclaimed 2024 debut Hardcore Workout Queen, for their second LP Friedberg allowed their priorities to take an exuberant left turn. Where before, guitars and indie-minded sensibilities took charge, now Anna and her Friedberg Collective formed by several London-based musicians - including Daniel Brandt, Cheryl Pinero, Hannah Feenstra, Emily Linden, Matthias Biermann and Fifi Dewey - want to make you dance.