Founded in 2006 in Drummondville, Quebec, Canada, Your Favorite Enemies is composed of singer, songwriter, guitarist and activist Alex Henry Foster, guitarists Jeff Beaulieu and See, bassist Ben Lemelin, keyboardist/vocalist Miss Isabel, and drummer Charles Allicie. Since the band’s beginnings, Alex Henry Foster was an activist and served as a spokesman for Amnesty International. He and the band were also involved with Rock N’ Rights and War Child. Influenced by punk, new wave, and goth music of the 1980s, the band released their debut EP And If I Was To Die in the Morning… Would I Still Be Sleeping With You? (2007) followed by the album Love Is a Promise Whispering Goodbye, in 2008. The album was a great success and the band undertook tours of Europe and Japan. Your Favorite Enemies invested their earnings and bought a former church and converted it into a recording studio. The band used the studio in order to start their own talk show entitled Bla Bla Blah: The Live Show. In support of a 2011 deluxe edition of Love Is a Promise Whispering Goodbye, the bend continued to tour several different countries. In July 2012, the band released the acoustic based album Vague Souvenir (2012). Their next release was the vinyl-only Secret Kind of Whispers (2013), a companion release to Vague Souvenir. Their next album, Between Illness and Migration (2013), which was a big success. In 2013 and 2014, the album was released in different territories - Japan, Australia, Canada and Europe - with slight differences in the track listing. The album was nominated for a Juno Award in 2015 for Rock Album of the Year. Your Favorite Enemies offered up a reimagining of the album when they released Between Illness and Migration - Deluxe: Tokyo Sessions in 2016. Over the last few years, Alex Henry Foster had thought about stepping outside the band and recording a solo album. The loss of his father in 2016 was the catalyst that inspired him to move to Tangier, Morocco to write and then record his first solo album Windows in the Sky (2018). In the meantime, the band released a vinyl box set and book, both entitled A Journey Beyond Ourselves. Alex Henry Foster released the live album Standing Under Bright Lights, in April 2021. The album was recorded at the Montreal International Jazz Festival, and features Alex Henry Foster performing every song from his solo album with an orchestra of 11 musicians.
