Indie Alt-Rock band Friedberg have announced their debut album Hardcore Workout Queen, due for release on November 8th, 2024 via Clouds Hill. The announcement also includes the details of their first London headline show at the 100 Club on November 4, 2024.

Friedberg’s debut album Hardcore Workout Queen is, in frontwoman Anna Friedberg’s words: “like an endless road trip, with no destination.” The groups consider the album’s songs to be “made for long drives with close pals, the sort of journeys where deep conversations become second nature and your innermost feelings are discussed over service station snacks and slightly-too-warm fizzy drinks.”

Hardcore Workout Queen was written in various studios, from Berlin to LA, via Dan Carey’s (Hot Chip, Fontaines D.C.) studio in South London, and Oli Bayston’s (Boxed In) in Walthamstow.

Anna Friedberg, says about the album:

I suppose you could say it’s a journey through the inner workings of my past few years. It’s vast and minute, it’s everything and nothing. It’s about breaking in and breaking free, about slipping into someone else’s mind for a holiday from your own thoughts. It’s being the Champion of the Slobs, whilst cheering for the Hardcore Workout Queens who run past your bedroom window as you’re tucking into your second breakfast. It’s the perfect album to listen to with the windows down cruising along a coastline, whether you know where you’re going or not.

Formed in 2019 by the Austrian-born Anna Friedberg (writer, vocals, guitar, cowbells and percussion), the line up is completed by London/Berlin-based Emily Linden (guitar, vocals), Cheryl Pinero (bass, vocals) and Fifi Dewey (drums). They have previously released their debut EP Yeah Yeah Yeah Yeah Yeah Yeah Yeah Yeah.

The band have performed at Eurosonic (Holland), Open Air St. Gallen (Switzerland), headlined Popfest (Austria), Haldern Pop (Germany), gone on a U.S tour with Hot Chip, played support with Placebo, and more.