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The expansion in Crow Wing County will help an estimated 1,100 households experiencing food insecurity per month by June 2026, the organization reported.
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As the title of their second full-length release suggests, Chicago indie-rock quartet Friko are searching for something.
Whether it's hope, connection or meaning in an increasingly discordant and lonely world, it always seems to be tantalizingly close but still out of reach of lead singer Niko Kapetan's trembling voice. But most importantly, that something is out there and it's enough to keep going.
Something Worth Waiting For builds on the band's wide ranging debut, from the power-pop and hook filled ("Still Around," "Hot Air Balloon," "Seven Degrees"), jagged and angular ("Guess," "Choo Choo" and "Something Worth Waiting For") and blossoming chamber-folk ("Certainty" and "Dear Bicycle").
"Certainty," the halfway mark of the album, is remarkable on its a own. A piano ballad with strings winding throughout, Kapetan paints an icy picture of winter in the city with lines like "Now you're out through the door with the sun in you eyes / Jump to the sidewalk up over the lines / And the salt is like lava, there's no solid ground / God, wasn't it winter three months ago now?"
Unrelated to the music, isn't the album art amazing? Who wants to form a bike gang? -Malachy Koons
Whether it's hope, connection or meaning in an increasingly discordant and lonely world, it always seems to be tantalizingly close but still out of reach of lead singer Niko Kapetan's trembling voice. But most importantly, that something is out there and it's enough to keep going.
Something Worth Waiting For builds on the band's wide ranging debut, from the power-pop and hook filled ("Still Around," "Hot Air Balloon," "Seven Degrees"), jagged and angular ("Guess," "Choo Choo" and "Something Worth Waiting For") and blossoming chamber-folk ("Certainty" and "Dear Bicycle").
"Certainty," the halfway mark of the album, is remarkable on its a own. A piano ballad with strings winding throughout, Kapetan paints an icy picture of winter in the city with lines like "Now you're out through the door with the sun in you eyes / Jump to the sidewalk up over the lines / And the salt is like lava, there's no solid ground / God, wasn't it winter three months ago now?"
Unrelated to the music, isn't the album art amazing? Who wants to form a bike gang? -Malachy Koons
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