“Paste Pick: The Chicago band's second album evokes the a nostalgic ache of a childhood bicycle, the escapist vision of a hot-air balloon, a classical piano, a string quartet, and the heart-tugging ruckus of a sweaty indie-rock quartet screaming their heads off.”
“Too often, the world pushes people to abandon hope and call it "maturity." Friko write songs as if that option was once presented to them with brute force, but then they decided to keep choosing hope anyway — the kind that's boundless, a bit naïve, and still worth the risk. The fast-rising Chicago indie rockers channel that into something real and well-earned on Something Worth Waiting For, a sop”
“wrestling with the life they worked so hard for”
“For its second record, the Chicago band adds sprawling arrangements to its homespun sound, reaching for the theatrical maximalism of its millennial indie-rock forebears.”
“Qualities that make the Chicago band always sound on the verge of a breakdown are reinforced on a volatile sophomore LP produced by John Congleton.”
“Friko offer larger-than-life ambition on Something Worth Waiting For”
