Blog: LocalCut

The Swervedriver founder's marquee sound precedes him, but he also writes a mean song. IMAGE: Johnny Moto [PSYCH POP] Adam Franklin has always had his own sound. It was present even in the early days, when his band Swervedriver released its debut full-length, Raise, in 1991. The London group's hallmark distortion pedals and warbling guitar licks and frontman Franklin's queasy vocals combined to form a wall of sound that, while lumped into the shoegaze genre, was theirs alone. Fast-forward almost 20 years to his latest [...]