Boombox Blitz: Fab the Duo unleash hell with new video, ‘Our Love is Resistance’

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Fab the Duo send shockwaves through the earth. Their ferocious energy, as found on their soul-baring, genre-twisting debut EP, Our Love is Resistance, burns the air. Their voices vine together, running from power-pop to glam-rock and everything in between. The title cut is an especially important moment, as its themes ring severe and even more timely than when written and recorded. “They don’t care about us / They don’t care about love / They despise us because we defy their laws,” the duo ⏤ of Greg Driscoll and Brendan Eprile ⏤ expose and pick apart the truth.

They bare their teeth from the start, fed up with systemic bigotry and hate so terribly engrained in society. Yet they plant their heels deeper in the dirt. “But we’ll persevere and we’ll rise above / Because nothing can get in between our love,” they avow. “Not the lawmakers / Not the thugs or the cops / Not the bigots or the zealots or even the wrath of god / We’ve endured so far and we ain’t gonna stop / They’ll find out soon enough.”

The visual, doused in black and white, unravels their own protest of sorts, to simply be loved and accepted. Six months after being filmed, it all feels far more radical and timely than even they could have predicted. In a post-George Floyd world, “Our Love is Resistance” stands as the kind of setpiece that could very well continue stoking the fires of the long-awaited reckoning. “We recorded this song and music video at the beginning of [the year], in a world that feels very different from the one we live in now,” the pair says. “Yet this track and its message seem more relevant than ever. We must fight against the hate and injustices of the world at all costs and know that love will prevail.”

Where “Our Love is Resistance” marries blues with rock, their EP swerves from charming early Karmin-cut bops (“No Prince Charming”) to sensitive singer/songwriter (“Stubborn,” “I Want a Man”) to glittering funk (“American Icon”). Fab the Duo have notched out a clear vision, and it’s hard to imagine their superstar breakout is not just over the horizon.

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