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To have flaws is human nature. The trick is to know how to acknowledge them, and either accept those imperfections or work to do better.
Pop trio Flawes – singer Josh “JC” Carruthers, guitarist Freddie Edwards and drummer Josh “Huss” Hussey – understand this better than most. At first glance they’re a classic pop band, with a slick, uplifting sound designed to make you move. Listen a little closer, though, and you’ll hear the subtleties and nuance honed by years of graft that make them one of the UK’s most exciting new prospects.
The band hit the ground running in 2016, when their debut release, ‘Don’t Wait For Me,’ unexpectedly ended up being a Radio 1 Record Of The Week, scaling the Spotify Viral Chart and ending up in heavy rotation on US TV. In 2017, they found themselves in a Los Angeles studio with producer/songwriter Finneas, after his sister – global popstar Billie Eilish – heard the band’s cover of their single “Ocean Eyes”. They slowly built a catalogue of tunes written in LA and London eventually releasing their juddering electro-pop debut album ‘Highlights’ 2019; an album about love, heartbreak and what JC saw as a series of open letters to himself. Not long after, the pandemic hit. Rather than concede defeat and go into hibernation, Flawes upped the ante and set about releasing a string of covers, “isolation sessions”, and weekly Q&As to stay connected with their fans. The album itself took on a strange prescience, with songs such as “Ghost Town” featuring US singer ROZES (best known for her triple-Platinum single “Roses” with The Chainsmokers) echoing a universal sense of loneliness.
With their upcoming second album, ‘One Step Back, Two Steps Forward’, Flawes offer a reintroduction of sorts after a disruptive few years. It’s a driving-with-the-top-down record, one that thrives on propulsive rhythms, yearning guitars and choruses that soar. Take the first single, album opener “Is It Any Wonder”. It bursts into life from the off, a thrilling blast of catharsis as JC bids farewell to a relationship. The song’s themes set the tone for the first “side” of the record, which is “all about the readjustment, the correction, the blip, the acceptance that no one is perfect and that taking a step back isn’t a bad thing. It looks back at previous relationships and situations and reflects – with the power of hindsight – how those situations were dealt with” says JC.