Saint Friday's "REASON" Proves Bad Decisions Make Great Rock Songs

Meet Saint Friday, the Philadelphia sibling duo, Helen and Johnny Fordyce, are doing something interesting with the city's rock DNA. Helen handles vocals while Johnny covers guitars, production, and basically everything else that makes noise. They're new to the scene, but they're not playing around with half-baked ideas or demo-quality releases.

Their debut single, "REASON", is essentially four minutes of acknowledging you're in a terrible situation and choosing to stay anyway. The track grapples with that specific kind of self-awareness that doesn't actually lead to better decisions. You know you should leave. But here you are, back for round seventeen. Helen and Johnny call it "cognitive dissonance," which is just a fancy way of saying your brain and your heart are in a fistfight and nobody's winning.

Johnny mastered the instrumental parts first, letting those dynamics dictate where the lyrics would land. This is just the first track from a four-song project they started this past summer, which means there's more of where this came from. If "REASON" is any indication of what Saint Friday can do, Philadelphia's rock scene just got a lot more interesting. Give it a listen, add it to your rotation, and maybe consider finally blocking that number you know you should've blocked months ago.

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