Philadelphia’s resident synth-trop outfit Work Drugs release their new full-length Mavericks via Bobby Cahn Records.
The band began writing Mavericks after a week- long excursion to California last summer. The way that the surfers at spots like Big Sur made their boards carve through the bright blue water impacted the Work Drugs duo of Tom Crystal and Ben Louisiana immensely. The surfers seemed like outlaws. The freedom of that lifestyle, which seemed to come so effortlessly, manifested itself in other tracks on the album, including “West Coast Slide” and “Young Lungs.”
“Sunset on High Street” was inspired by Los Angeles’ homeless on Skid Row, which has one f the most consistent homeless populations in America. Skid Row is surrounded by what most people would consider paradise. The weight of such irony struck a chord in the bandmates.