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The Friends With Pools sound had gotten louder and darker since our debut EP, and we’d gained an additional guitarist in Gerard Becker. We recorded a two-track EP, Don’t Count on Me, at Pony Jones Records over a weekend in February 2020. The record was released to major music streaming services in March. Listen on Spotify below:

The garage-punk band Friends With Pools was formed by myself, Diffie Bosman, and frontman Louis Knoetze in 2016 as a fun side-project to our other, more serious band commitments. We ended up enjoying it so much that it was for each of us the only band that we were still playing in by the end of the year. We wrote a lot of songs very quickly, an...

I am November recorded a 5-track EP called Drawn, opening with the previously-released Drawn and Call Off. It adds an up-to-date version of the song Thinking Too Loud, which was first heard in a stripped-down indie-folk context on Concrete Sky; here, it has been reworked into an upbeat pop song. Two new tracks, Up to Us featuring Janey Bay and ...

Watch the music video for the final song released by I am November as a band, Woods below. The video was created by Henk Labuschagne, who also sings on the song.

I’d been playing bass for Pretoria-based rocker Fritz Günter’s band, Fritz Gun, and contributed to the recording of his EP What You Are. The EP was released on major platforms in 2016. Listen below:

Here’s another entry in I am November’s music video collaboration with Henk Labuschagne. The music video for Home features me and a friend having a huge fight in my parents’ kitchen. Watch below:

Having recently recorded our debut EP, I am November set out to record two new songs, Drawn and Call Off. The new tracks showed a marked step up in production and style, now encased within sleek pop-rock elements in addition to the indie-folk songwriting. Both tracks were largely produced by the band, but now featured vocals and drums recorded ...

In 2015, I was part of the lineup of the band Alan! Let’s Move On’s attempt to re-group after a few years off the circuit. The reunion ultimately fell through, but we wrote a few songs and recorded two. Listen below: Phlippie/Music · Alan! Let's Move On 2015 Recordings