Idolator

Before they teamed up to form the blog-beloved remix outfit Simian Mobile Disco, James Ford and James Shaw were members of SImian, a short-lived British electronic-pop-psych group that managed two albums on Astralwerks before breaking up in 2005. We Are Your Friends, the band's last effort, is fairly hit-and-miss, but it yielded two notable tracks: "LA Breeze" (which was eventually discovered by Madison Avenue) and the joyous, bursting-at-the-seams "When I Go": More »