"Rawtown" is a conceptual album, musically shielded by a succession of songs in which the band walks through many of the Jamaican styles always with a reason and devoted to their own roots. After two years of intense work, The Dance Crashers release "Rawtown", their second album. It is a concept album divided into four chapters inspired by the lunar phases, in which the action takes place in the fictitious neighborhood of Rawtown. These 4 phases illustrate a cyclical process that goes from darkness to light, being darkness the reflection of individualism and light the symbol of the fullness of collective feeling. The storyline is musically shielded by a succession of songs, sung in English, in which the band goes through most of the styles of Jamaican music, ska, rocksteady, reggae, dub, dancehall... always in a justified way and firmly devoted to their own roots. The Dance Crashers put on the turntable a cyclical record (both conceptually and musically) and just as happens in the plot of "Rawtown", the band builds a rich musical universe and shares it with fierceness and passion. They drink from the legacy of the originators of ska, rocksteady, reggae, dub, dancehall... that preceded them and put everything they have collectively learned at the disposal of current and future listeners in a surprising album of impeccable production and a powerful and contemporary sound.[info sheet from distr.]