Old Friends (Pinegrove song)
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| "Old Friends" | ||||
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| Single by Pinegrove | ||||
| from the album Cardinal | ||||
| Released | January 5, 2016 | |||
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| Length | 3:28 | |||
| Label | Run for Cover | |||
| Songwriter(s) | Evan Stephens Hall | |||
| Pinegrove singles chronology | ||||
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"Old Friends" is a song recorded by American rock band Pinegrove. The song was released on January 5, 2016, through Run for Cover Records, as the lead single from the band's second studio album Cardinal. It was written by singer-songwriter Evan Stephens Hall; lyrically, the song focuses on past friendships, as well as change.
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"Old Friends" was penned by Pinegrove frontman Evan Stephens Hall, who also performs the breadth of its instrumentation; on the track, he sings, plays guitar, percussion, banjo, keyboards, bass, and is credited with its recording and mixing.[1] Alongside Hall, the band's other members, Nick and Zack Levine, add guitar and drums; both are credited with recording and mixing as well. In addition, Mike Levine, Nick and Zack's father, contributes lap steel guitar to the song.[2] Hall stated in an interview that the song was developed between 2012 and 2014.[3] Quinn Moreland, writing for Pitchfork, considered its sound as redolent of Wilco's early music.[4]
In context with Cardinal, "Old Friends" opens the album and is thematically connected to its final track, "New Friends".[5] Both songs center on friendship; Moreland called the companion songs "odes to the fluctuating relationships that come with young adulthood."[4] It was, like much of Cardinal, inspired by evening walks around Brookdale Park in his hometown of Montclair, New Jersey;[6] the song's opening lyrics detail its "familiar sidewalk cracks and dogwood trees."[7] The lyrics are fictional, but "deeply" connected to Hall's experiences.[3] In an interview, Hall considered the song to have "an element of staying the same while everything around you changes and wanting to be adaptable but also being a little stubborn about it."[8]
