Montreal’s The Fake Friends Announce Debut LP With Sharp Post-Punk Single “A Sucker Born Every Minute”
Public Stream Single December 11, 2025
Video for “A Sucker Born Every Minute” (Dec 11)
Advance Single: A Sucker Born Every Minute 3:19 (No Explicit Language / MAPL)
Genre Tags: Post-Punk, Dance-Punk, Indie Rock, Power-Pop Punk
RIYL: Parquet Courts, Culture Abuse, Yard Act, Franz Ferdinand, The Strokes, Cloud Nothings
Montreal’s The Fake Friends launch the lead-up to their debut LP Let’s Not Overthink This with “A Sucker Born Every Minute,” out December 11 on Stomp Records. It is a sharp, melodic jolt that threads dance-punk tension through a thick post-punk backbone, landing somewhere between Parquet Courts, Culture Abuse, and the rawer edges of early 2000s alt-rock. The track feels built for both the floor and the headphones, rhythmic and hook-forward, grounded in the kind of emotional candor that has become a quiet signature for the band.
Formed in Montreal’s tight-knit punk and indie ecosystem, The Fake Friends grew out of shared apartments, shared stages, and the cross-pollination that happens when half your friends are already in multiple other projects. Frontman Matthew Savage leads the six-piece lineup: guitarists Felix Crawford-Legault and Luca Santilli, bassist Michael Kamps, keyboardist Bradley Cooper-Graham, and drummer Michael Tomizzi. Their roots stretch from hardcore to power-pop and back again, a range that shows up in the sound. High-energy, melodic, a little jagged, always moving forward.
“A Sucker Born Every Minute” captures that blend with surprising focus. The song drives on tightly wound guitars and a rhythm section that feels both precise and restless, while Savage leans into the tension between bravado and self-recognition. The lyrics circle around familiar patterns: burned bridges, late-night decisions, the impulse to run from responsibility. The hook lands like a self-directed challenge. It is a song that moves quickly but leaves something heavier in its wake.
The single also offers the first look at Let’s Not Overthink This, the band’s first full-length with the current lineup. Montreal’s studio network shaped the record, from practice spaces to Mixart to the hands of producer and engineer Jordan Barillaro, giving the album a sense of place that echoes through its sound. The material broadens the scope of what The Fake Friends were doing on earlier EPs. Bigger arrangements. More interplay between guitars and keys. A stronger thread of danceable rhythm running through the noise. It is still loud and messy in the right ways, just with more intention behind the mess.
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Onstage, The Fake Friends have carved out a name far beyond their hometown, playing consistently throughout the midwest and east coast and hitting rooms that sharpened their sound show by show. Combined with placements like Hockey Night in Canada and support slots for Me First and the Gimme Gimmes, Buzzcocks, and Wine Lips, the band has steadily built a reputation as one of Montreal’s most restless and reliable live acts. With Let’s Not Overthink This arriving in 2026, “A Sucker Born Every Minute” sets the tone for what is coming: post-punk sharpness, melodic hooks, and a distinctly Montreal kind of honesty. It is the first chapter in a rollout that finds The Fake Friends stepping fully into their identity, bold and rhythmic and unmistakably their own.“A Sucker Born Every Minute” lands December 11 via Stomp Records, the first crack in the door before the chaos of Let’s Not Overthink This kicks all the way open.
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