Friends + Phonetag + Spanish Prisoners

Fronted by two girls who’ve known each other since elementary school, Friends is a sassy quintet of multi-instrumentalists who make funky disco-tropicalia: Bushwick R&B, if you will. They've yet to release a full-length, but the handful of tracks in circulation evoke CSS’s braggadocio, Cults’ cutesy appeal and Mary J. Blige’s retro hip-hop moves (see “My Boo,” a cover of the 1996 Ghost Town DJ’s song).