Franklin Manor

Franklin Manor’s new album “Motive” captures a new wave rock sound portraying the dark underbelly of Los Angeles, CA where they reside. Kelpin Kelpin, highly innovative front man and founder of the project, delivers a cutting edge sound and provides hard hitting subject matter about the darker sides of a city that prides itself on sparkly image, reputation, and money.

Kelpin set out to create the album with a vision to capture life in the trenches of LA. After tedious work and refinement in the studio with two time Grammy award winning engineer/producer Sadaharu Yagi, their full length album “Motive” was released in December 2014. The sound and style of the album are cultivated from a combined force of Kelpin’s 90’s grunge rock influences, (Alice In Chains, Soundgarden, Stone Temple Pilots), and Sada’s 80’s dance influence (Talking Heads, Simple Minds and Depeche Mode), giving birth to a new sonically driven sound. In modernizing these roots, Motive is Merely a concept album about the so called “City of Angels” and is heavily influenced by the sound of Muse, Coldplay and The Naked and Famous