Video Premiere: Friend Roulette visualizes head trauma with “I’m Sorry You Hit Your Head”

Friend Roulette: I'm Sorry You Hit Your HeadFriend Roulette: I’m Sorry You Hit Your Head (Goodnight, 4/23/13)

Concussions are not a pleasant experience. Orch-pop outfit Friend Roulette seems to know this, as its new record expresses with its sympathetic title. In the video for the single of the same name, the band pairs pulsing woodwinds, wailing horns, and swirling strings with a psychedelic world that makes for an unsettlingly vague but colorful experience.

Head here to pre-order I’m Sorry You Hit Your Head on iTunes, and head here to see the band’s upcoming concert dates, including its record-release show at New York’s Mercury Lounge on May 23.

Friend Roulette

A percussive prog-pop powerhouse: Friend Roulette’s “Earthrise” premiere

Friend Roulette: I'm Sorry You Hit Your HeadFriend Roulette: I’m Sorry You Hit Your Head (Goodnight, 4/23/13)

“Earthrise”

Friend Roulette: “Earthrise”

Borne from two months of recovery from being hit by a bus, Friend Roulette is the Brooklyn-based brainchild of guitarist/singer Matthew Meade (he of said accident) and violinist/vocalist Julia Tepper (she of moral support). Together, the two have assembled a stable of talent to create progressive, percussive, chamber-infused pop that’s charged with vocal interplay.