Chicago punk-pop group Real Friends found success in the mid-2010s with the explosive, emo-driven sound of albums like 2014's Maybe This Place Is the Same and We're Just Changing and 2016's The Home Inside My Head. After taking a more personal bent on their third album, Composure, the group parted ways with their longtime vocalist and began a new phase with 2021's Torn in Two EP.
Real Friends were formed in 2010 in Tinley Park, Illinois, a suburb on the South Side of Chicago, by bassist/lyricist Kyle Fasel and guitarist Dave Knox. Heavily inspired by bands such as Brand New a...