The Daily Spin II

Between Friends | I Love My Girl, She's My Boy

Welcome back to the Daily Spin. For the uninitiated, this is the series in which I review an album every day of 2025.

As was the case two years ago, my favorite song from each album can be found at the playlist linked here.

Album: I Love My Girl, She’s My Boy (2023)

Artist: Between Friends

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Full of the sort of joviality I don’t think I would have expected from an outside glance, this album has all the makings of a hit and all the trappings of a bomb. It’s a tale of two sides - one side makes incredibly catchy pop, the kind that you’ll catch yourself humming along to throughout your day for months on end as I have, while the other side of the record puts four interludes on a thirty-minute record. Y’all.

Even with that, this record is fun as all hell. This is the type of album that gets played when you’re hanging out with friends because it is so clearly created by friends - it is an ode to the romantic, but it’s also an ode to every type of friendship there is, all depicted in beautiful instrumentation.

It takes a minute to get going - though Bruise is a frontrunner for my song of the decade as it stands, it’s really the only highlight from a weak front half, but the back half gets rolling and becomes so good with such finesse and quickness that it’s stunning.

At the end of the day, I can’t be mad about this, not when it’s so clearly a project resting on its own foundation. It’s joyful - what’s not to like?

Rating: 8/10

Best Tracks: Bruise, I Love My Girl, She’s My Boy

Worst Tracks: Sorry