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Drinking with My Smoking Friends

2021 studio album by Allday

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionNov 17, 2025
Entity authorityQ106678946 ↗
Source-derived summary

Drinking with My Smoking Friends is the fourth studio album by Australian rapper Allday, released on 28 May 2021 via Believe Music. The album was announced on 10 March 2021, alongside the release of second single "Void", and tour dates in August 2021.

Drinking with My Smoking Friends received critical acclaim following its release and peaked at number 13 on the ARIA Albums Chart.

Background

In a press release, Allday said, "Drinking with My Smoking Friends is about escaping something and finding something new, whether that's a place, a relationship or something else."

Critical reception

Drinking with My Smoking Friends received critical acclaim.

Poppy Reid from Rolling Stone Australia said "In a world starved of human connection mid-pandemic, where even the simplest comforts are compromised, Drinking with My Smoking Friends reminds us to bathe in our own delicious weariness.

Editorial summary

This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “Drinking with My Smoking Friends” as 2021 studio album by Allday. Everything that follows is an evidence route, not borrowed authority.

Editorial reviewBest approached as a cultural-object dossier: authorship and date matter, but circulation and reception often explain the wider significance. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2021—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. The account is most persuasive where Drinking, Smoking and Friends can be independently traced.
Editorial analysis

Why this record matters

The subject matters to the arts & letters register because the source frames it as 2021 studio album by Allday. Its deeper value depends on whether names, dates, institutions and citations support that framing.

Evidence profile

Object files, edition statements, performance records and contemporary criticism preserve different stages of the work’s history. The source revision retrieved here is dated Nov 17, 2025. The linked authority identifier is Q106678946. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 2021.

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This entry incorporates text from “Drinking with My Smoking Friends” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.