LA-based pop-rock artist Erin Greider has released new single ‘We Could’ve Been Friends’, due to appear on upcoming sophomore album, Tales of an Academic Journey from the Pen of an Intellectual. A warm mid-tempo track, it captures the moment a relationship reveals itself as never having been real, building from small, everyday details of intimacy into a wistful chorus and giving the feel of Greider working through the breakup in real time.
“A song about someone doing you so dirty that there is no coming back from it,” says Greider. “Not every breakup has to feel like the end of the world. Breakups are only messy if you make them messy.”
Greider’s sound splits the difference between California surf pop and Sunset Strip rock, with influences from David Bowie to Taylor Swift. Following on from her debut album Sim Controllers, which was written in isolation in 2020, ‘We Could’ve Been Friends’ turns those real-life experiences into candid pop-rock storytelling.
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