Ears Wide Open: Raw Fabrics

Kevin Bronson on May 21st, 2014

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Raw Fabrics are an L.A.-based trio of 21-year-olds with an armload of anthemic songs that mix the driving bass lines of modern dance-punk bands with production sheen of modern radio bands. The new single “Down the Drain” sounds like something Franz Ferdinand might’ve tried in another life, with its insistent chorus and hook. Raw Fabrics (Jack B. Franco, Jon Fredrik and Justus Dixon) have been working on their new music in the U.K. with noted producer Stephen Street – yes, the fellow who produced the Smiths’ final album, Morrissey’s “Viva Hate” and Blur’s “Modern Life Is Rubbish,” “Parklife” and “Blur” (and more recently, Kaiser Chiefs). The single is out next Tuesday.

||| Stream: “Down the Drain”