Brooklyn-based artist Neil Friedlander is channeling sun-drenched beach parties and unbreakable bonds with his new single, ‘IFC,’ a blast of pop-grunge-rock that’s part garage rave-up, part vintage heartland gem.

The track is the latest peek into his forthcoming third album, ‘The Change,’ a collection that intimately chronicles his journey through sobriety, life moves, and finding his way back to himself.

While the album documents a period of deep self-evolution, ‘IFC’ is an escape…a cranked-up, hook-heavy retreat into the comfort of shared history. The song was born from Friedlander reflecting on a decade-old “chosen family” he made while working at a restaurant, a crew who celebrated life, music, and each other with intense fervor.

Friedlander shares the personal story behind the track:

“I wrote ‘IFC’ about 10 years after I had made a group of friends – while working at a restaurant – that felt like a real chosen family. Once a year we would go to the beach, do MDMA, and just connect on a very deep level. Time has had a way of shifting many of my life’s circumstances, but ‘IFC’ was a revelation and a realization – that the experiences we shared are never going anywhere. That the love we shared for music, for celebration, and for each other – these are things that stand almost separate to time and its movements.”

“I brought the song to Chris (Camilleri, my producer) and I remember we were really excited by the feel of it. The pop-grunge-rockiness. Props to Chris, because he really pushed me to refine some of the lyrics (the ‘IFC’ line is – to me – very enjoyably tongue-in-cheek, evoking the feeling of European art films, but also kind of making fun of its own self-seriousness). Adam Stoler came on to flesh it out with really ‘dirty’ electric guitar – and the song was born.”

Produced by award-winner Chris Camilleri (John Legend, Lennon Stella) and featuring Adam Stoler’s “dirty” electric guitar, ‘IFC’ injects a modern, beach-and-guitars aesthetic into Friedlander’s poetic, introspective songwriting.