Front cover screen printed by PullPrint with unique back designs made by various different artists/mates including Danny Le Guilcher (PullPrint), Fiona Riches (Rotten Human), Toby Slater (592720) & Twin Siblings.
Home-made CDs.
Out of many rainy, gloomy afternoons in Bristol comes Twin Siblings, a captivating musical venture that situates itself between pensive, confessional songwriting and the city’s famed drugged out electronica. Jake Healy, the artist behind Twin Siblings (formerly of post-punkers New Cowboy Builders who split up last year), paints silhouetted stories that are heavy with nostalgia and longing, but in such delicate, flitting arrangements that are careful to trace the emotions behind the music (rather than bludgeon them outright). It may be sad bastard music, sure, but it has the foresight to not disappear beneath the weight of its self-reflection, there’s too much wit to give way to forlorn apathy. Guitars weave spacious webs of music on top of dub beats,as the drum patterns range from the sound of steady raindrops on window panes clear thru to the gunfire of an automatic weapon. The vocals,sung in Healy’s heavy Welsh accent, rise up from the spindling guitars, sometimes with a slurred mute sadness, other times with a biting sarcastic hiss, but always with an emotional drawl that resonates with the music. Interspersed are samples of old folk songs, heavy machinery, and soundbites from the gates of hell themselves,creating an atmosphere that’s equally part post-industrial fatigue and part bleary-eyed absurdity of late night television. Lyrics appear in impressionistic snippets, painting vivid pictures that mix admissions painful separation –“A show of affection from someone who’s not physically here”–with imagery of mattresses on floors, drunken Saturday afternoons, and lonely streets, all of it adding up to a gripping portrait of 21s tcentury ennui, at least at face value. But there’s so much more here than the drunken pessimism of watching the working classes mingle with “peasants” at happy hour; Healy avoids dollar-bin misanthropy. If anything,an uncanny if dryhumor pervades through the album, cropping up on wry lines like “people celebrate shortcomings,”a droll celebration of our moodiness, our fits of confusion. These songs are not meant to isolate, rather to express isolation –the fascination upon discovering there’s something hollowing out everyone else around you. At just over half an hour, the emotional journey of Twin Siblings is complex without being exhausting, and for all of its introspection,it avoids obsessive navel-gazing. It is music that may comfort you through a long bout of insomnia, or after missing the night bus and facing the long walk home with nothing but your thoughts to keep you company. In other words, music for those vulnerable times when you need it most. (S.Brookes)
Includes unlimited streaming of Twin Siblings
via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.
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KM Records Presents Ltd. Edition Cassette
Cassette + Digital Album
Limited run of cassettes produced by KM Records. Includes different artwork. Limited to 30 copies.
Includes unlimited streaming of Twin Siblings
via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.
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