Back in April we introduced Get In, the new EP from Vancouver Island’s Neighbourly forthcoming via Earth Libraries. “A release which promises to champion the possibilities when a group of friends get together and create without pressure or expectation,” as we described, single ‘Thread Count’ embodying the band’s ethos of having fun during the creation process with a spontaneous, sardonic tone. The result was post-punk but not quite as we know it, adding a few dashes of psychedelic mischief to, as we continued in our preview, “[bend] the aloof cool so typical of the genre with a tongue-in-cheek playfulness.”
With the release of the EP fast approaching, Neighbourly have returned with brand new single, ‘Lofi’. One of several songs on the record which utilises Spanish language, the track both introduces another dimension to the project and doubles down on the fun, tongue-in-cheek spirit underpinning it. Oliver Sandberg’s lyrics play as an internal monologue externalised, the artist addressing the audience directly in a kind of meta ‘show your workings’ exercise, though one delivered with effortless swagger and attitude.