What if your love story was just beginning at the end of the world? 

Former Less Than Jake drummer Vinnie Fiorello and Westbound Train frontman Obi Fernandez of The Inevitables explore that question on their lovers rock-inspired new single “Florida Moon.”

“We wanted to write a love song about people who have only found each other just as their world is ending,” says Fiorello, “Are they going to fight for it? Or are they just going to say ‘why are we bothering to try to start something new when it's the end?’ When you're so deeply in love, yet things start to go awry, you have a choice whether you're going to fight for it, or whether you're going to succumb to the heaviness and just let it sink you”.

A multimedia project encompassing both comics and some fine ska music, The Inevitables story is based on a group of nobodies trying to save the world. While Fiorello and Fernandez have put together some great talents on both platforms, the aggregate on the music side also includes Matt Appleton (Reel Big Fish), Billy Kottage, John DeDomenici (Jeff Rosenstock, Bomb The Music Industry!), Alex Stern (Big D And The Kids Table) and Sean-Paul Pillsworth (Nightmares For A Week).

Opening with the line ‘Are you running out of life to live under the Florida moon?’ the track’s stark juxtaposition of dark lyrical content and light, delicate melodies represents a spin on a central theme of The Inevitables universe, that of “Paradise and Grime”. 

Our story starts in the not-so-distant future when Big Pharma has been able to produce a “cure for death.” Of course there’s a big number on the price tag for such a coveted item, which further divides the mega wealthy from the working class. It’s about time the corporations get a reality check that playing God has consequences and death is inevitable.

Enter The Inevitables: an unlikely team of a punker, drug dealer, graffiti artist, mystic bodega owner, and middle-aged Christian couple who come together to take on the challenge that is Knight Pharmaceuticals. As they face off with Dr. Tillerson Knight, owner of the massive corporation, tensions rise and so do the stakes. 

The love story of “Florida Moon” takes place at this juncture, as two characters from The Inevitables’ world, Joe Swan and Mac, had just met as the world was ending at the close of the first album.

The Inevitables’ story takes place in a very bright, pastel, and beautiful world that is at the same time also very dirty and animated by a dark underbelly. Some ugly things happen in some very beautiful places. And some beautiful people are also equally ugly on the inside. “Florida Moon” puts a dark spin on the love story by making it about two complicated people who are involved in some nefarious things and asking ‘what if these characters were faced with their worlds collapsing, yet just started to fall in love?’