My Favorite review on Louder Than War

"Named with all the hubris of Napoleon III strutting back into his uncle’s old office, it takes a position in their oeuvre equivalent to that of Bowie’s Let’s Dance or Roxy’s Dance Away. It’s even about dancing, sort of, and there are lyrical nods to the Duke and Bryan too. It’s middle aged My Favorite, which is only right and proper. “Too old to die young, too young to die slow” would be a fine opening couplet in any context, but as a scene setter for this melancholic meditation on the possibility of rebirth on the dancefloor, it’s devastating"

read the whole review here

a video for My Favorite's Second Empire

as previewed on Skatterbrain, and all ready for your own karaoke party

release date - My Favorite

yep - it's been 10 years coming, and it's out today - 7th October - Luke Haines', John Mellencamp's and Simon Cowell's birthday!

Second Empire and Dance With A Stranger are anthems for a bookish overachiever making the most of his best man's yacht for the after party… and then burning it down in the water. Each lyric is a slogan, tattooed in Helvetica, to the sounds of a dark disco Domino Dancing... if these tunes were the John Hughes soundtrack that Electronic and BEF never made Andie would have left with Duckie.

Formed as teenagers in early 90s on Long Island, My Favorite were a critically acclaimed enigmatic indiepop group during the first era of their career, beginning with their debut single The Last New Wave Record 7” in 1994 through to 2003’s The Happiest Days Of Our Lives double LP. Aside from a cult of devoted fans in America, Sweden and Japan, My Favorite also had fans amongst the best of their peers, leading to invitations to open for Belle & Sebastian and The Magnetic Fields, as well as being chosen by Morrissey for his pre-concert mix in 2005. At the same time they were influencing the next wave of indie and alternative bands; members of The Pains Of Being Pure At Heart and The Drums are on the record as fans.

The group turned the haunted suburbs of Long Island into an array of heavenly pop hits, which in some tangent universe might have landed them on Top Of The Pops, or the cover of the NME. Monsters, misfits, and the ghosts of dead teenagers populated songwriter Michael Grace Jr’s atmospheric short stories about youth and love squandered in squalor. From synthpop to punk, to the echoes of reggae and goth, My Favorite were chameleons, pop artists who borrowed and deconstructed the marginalized music of the 80s to frame a kind of End Of The Century last stand against the coming constructs of the digital age.

And now, through chance, design and metaphysical obligation, My Favorite have returned.

The picture disc is illustrated by Jeff Mellin

My Favorite

yep, it's a big deal... yep, it's the first My Favorite single in a decade... yep, it's RAD... yep, you can get it here:

77 days is too long - My Favorite

oh, yes, you've been waiting 9 years, so what's another 77 days?

the brand new record from My Favorite is released on 7th October, and you can pre order it here, there are just 77 copies, so get in sharpish (it's already been compared to a moonlit Domino Dancing):