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Evil Friends by Portugal. The Man
Evil Friends is an album by Portugal. The Man, released in 2013. 3 songs from it have charted on rock radio countdowns, with 19 countdown appearances in total. The biggest is “Modern Jesus”, on 8 lists with a best position of #4.
Evil Friends, the seventh studio album from Portugal. The Man, came out on Atlantic in 2013 and marked the Wasilla, Alaska band's first team-up with Danger Mouse. The producer lays a widescreen, faintly haunted gloss over John Gourley's songs, sharpening the hooks without sanding off the weirdness, while Zach Carothers keeps the bass lines rolling underneath.
The title track, "Purple Yellow Red and Blue" and "Modern Jesus" were the singles, each one a sticky earworm with something darker lurking below the sugar. Reviews were favorable, and it charted in the US as well as Austria, Germany, France and Switzerland. Sitting between In the Mountain in the Cloud and Woodstock, it's the moment the band's backwoods oddness got a big-league sound to match.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
Songs from Evil Friends on radio countdowns
| # | Song | Strength | Lists | Best | #1s | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Modern Jesus | 8 | #4 | – | 2013–2025 | |
| 2 | Purple, Yellow, Red, and Blue | 9 | #23 | – | 2013–2019 | |
| 3 | Evil Friends | 2 | #27 | – | 2013–2014 |
Only songs that appear on at least one countdown are listed. Release data from MusicBrainz.