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After getting knocked back for a grant to fund their next album, Nick and Liesl decided to release a fully home made ‘in-betweener’ to tie their fans (and themselves) over till they can afford a full-length album to follow-up from their critically acclaimed debut Feather (“Honestly, Feather is one of the best albums I’ve heard in forever” - Rhythms, May 2011). So while many of their peers are going down the crowd-funding route to fund their studio time, Nick and Liesl decided to put to use the recording skills, and the equipment, invested in over the past five years of home recording and record a high-quality low-cost acoustic EP at home and by themselves. Friend and Lover is a light and sweet, at times almost kitsch, release. It captures the essence of Nick and Liesl’s sound, the beautiful vocals and superbly blended harmonies, and proves that the duo can bring us a stellar release also without the backing of musicians of the calibre that we heard on Feather. Yet the EP is not