Friends
WAMI-era friendship song: affection without needing to meet IRL, before the internet-friends thesis got its own anthem.
ISRC TCADL1892440 (soundexchange)
Track four on $WAMI$, the 2018 lore-dump LP recorded in a bathrobe between Finding $D and Dragon Ball $d. Friends sits in the middle of the collage: after Phone Plan’s wifi joke and the cartoon detours, before Romantic Capitalism and the Babidi features.
The title is plain on purpose. On an album full of meme titles and anime theology, this is one of the short sincere pop gestures, friendship as something worth naming without irony. Four years later All My Friends Live on the Internet would make the thesis explicit (would you be mad if I said I never really wanna meet ya in-person). Friends is the earlier, softer version: you do not need the group-chat manifesto yet, just the feeling that someone on the other side of the screen counts.
Luke Francis Walton wrote, played, tracked, and mixed. Distro metadata lists the $WAMI$ era under Accidental Muse; the Bandcamp LP dropped May 9, 2018 as a free digital album.
See Catalog · $WAMI$ album notes