…I think I just found my new favourite up-and-coming act.
An absolute visceral assault on the ears (in all the best ways possible), Twine delivers one of the most unique sounds the Aus music scene has come across in some time. One second, they’re barraging your speakers with intense noise-rock feedback; the next, tugging at your emotions with searing heart-on-your-sleeve alt-country melodies.
Twine – New Old Horse
- Label: Kitty Records
- Release: 6 Dec
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It’s a whirlwind of sound, with so much going on that you almost don’t know what to think or feel, you just know you like it–a lot.
If you think you have a pretty clear vision of what the group sound like, opener ‘Future Exhales’ will change that within its opening two seconds, brutally kicking in with fuzzy distortion, bleeding lead guitars and huge walls of chugging riffs. Then, within minutes, you turn the corner to ‘Sleeping Dogs’ and ‘My God’, emotional bluegrass driven folk-rock ballads that sporadically tie in unhinged math-rock freakouts and riff-based violins for good measure.
It sounds like a confusing mixture of genres, and it is–but that’s also where Twine’s greatest strengths lie. New Old Horse covers the entire spectrum; slow shoegaze riffs, doom metal basslines, ocker-punk vocals, pop-punk percussion, riff-based folk-rock violin harmonies–and that’s just in ‘Spine’.
It feels like lightning in a bottle, channelling an organised chaos that leans away from any other bands in the Australian scene to hone in on a sound that’s completely unique. Considering this is only Twine’s debut effort, I can’t wait to see where they go from here–based on New Old Horse, it could honestly be anywhere.
Twines debut body of work, New Old Horse will hit on Friday 6 December.
