Friendship - Caveman Wakes Up

Friendship’s Caveman Wakes Up is a murky, poetic expansion of country-rock, rich with texture and experimentation. Shambling guitars meet flute pads and Motown grooves, while Dan Wriggins’ ragged baritone delivers lyrics full of emotional weight and casual surrealism. The album swings between the conscious and subconscious, conjuring dreamlike states and deep introspection.

Written in the wake of personal upheaval and shaped across shared spaces—from a North Carolina porch to a Philadelphia church—the record bears the marks of its collaborative, deeply DIY origins. Songs like “Resident Evil,” “Love Vape,” and “All Over the World” fuse bleak humor with flashes of transcendence, where the sacred and profane blur. With arrangements echoing everyone from Neil Young to ML Buch, and flourishes like Mellotron swells, fade-outs, and snare brush patterns, Caveman Wakes Up is Friendship’s most sonically detailed release to date—an album of quiet revelations and enduring devotion to the craft.