twin shadow: the official ilm thread started by max

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^^this is so cute!!

is it, though?

yep

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HiC9XNQSxFQ

I am really digging the album

album streaming now: http://www.the-fly.co.uk/feature/general/1014424/twin-shadow-album-stream-2/

wasn't sure at first but really getting into this now

its really good.

Is that the "Take My Breath Away" bass synth sound or just something very, very close?

Huh. I loved the first one, but I'm really not feeling this (yet).

felt the same way, but somehow I've wound up listening to it about 5 times today and it's really sticking to me now.

New album is great but takes a few listens. Loving 'Run My Heart'.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5zwZDvj565g&feature=related

Huh. I loved the first one, but I'm really not feeling this (yet).

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He was amazing last nite in London. Encored with a special 4 July medley of "American Girl" into "Star-Spangled Banner". The Forget stuff still felt stronger tho.

wow i must be amazing because i'm enjoying this on my first listen

*applauds*

i really like this! first four tracks in particlar

man this is the junior boys album that i wanted that last junior boys album to be

it doesn't sound that different from the last album aside from being better/more expansively produced, i'm curious why a couple of people said they were having trouble getting into it?

just not catching my earholes the same way

This is pretty good. Hooks don't stand out like the ones on Forget.

I have never heard them, but I foud this of interest:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/entertainment/music/positive-reception-for-twin-shadows-confess-shows-the-low-bar-in-indie-rock/2012/07/08/gJQAV2SvWW_story.html?wprss=rss_style

Chris Richards of the Washington Post:

The album itself couldn’t play it any safer, embarking on another dead-end expedition to the 1980s. It’s all retro-glassy textures outfitted with lyrics about love’s complexities sung by a young man whose ego seems to have replaced his heart.

It’s bad. But what makes Lewis’s music so interesting is how eagerly it has been embraced — it’s critical reception illustrates indie rock’s sexual double standard at work. Earlier this year, an online shouting match erupted around Lana Del Rey, a fast-climbing New York singer whose background was scrutinized as if she were running for office. When her first album, “Born to Die,” debuted at No. 2 on the Billboard charts, the blogosphere chased its tail in a style-vs.-substance debate that is reserved almost exclusively for female artists. Could someone this attractive, this fashionable, this concerned with her image, this unapologetically ambitious, actually be “the real thing”?

New question. Will anyone bother to ask those same questions of Lewis? He’s an equally ambitious, equally good-looking guy who loves to talk about the depth of his ambition and the extent of his good-lookingness. He recently described his look to Spin as “James Dean in Bollywood in the late ’80s.” Other interviews make him look like a first-class narcissist in ways that are both amusing and sad.

But instead of putting him through the wringer, the blogeratti are pinning medals on Lewis’s chest. He’s being championed as a savvy, stylish bad boy for the same reasons Del Rey was dismissed as a fraud.

They’ve both made treacly albums that fail to communicate actual emotion, and “Confess” is the weaker of the two.

lol great headline, looks like something off the national security desk

that might even remotely have a point of TS hadn't already released one really great & critically acclaimed album

Difference is I really like the new TS album and Lana Del Rey had two amazing tracks and a couple of okay ones and a bunch of duds, for me anyway. I don't care about LDR's aesthetics or persona, the same way I don't care about George Lewis'. His album isn't about being a motorcycle gang badboy from the 50s or whatever, so for me that doesn't enter into the quality of the songs.

But yeah everytime something is hyped there is going to be the reactionary who wants to call out the emperor as having now clothes.

ha great typo

lol whoops

it doesn't sound that different from the last album aside from being better/more expansively produced, i'm curious why a couple of people said they were having trouble getting into it?

Not as immediately catchy/hooky, but who knows, it might be a grower.

bit plodding if u ask me

Yeah, is there anything with the fast fizzy sparkle of "At My Heels"?

http://thequietus.com/articles/09339-twin-shadow-confess-review

re: run my heart

i could just listen to boys of summer?

yes, you could listen to it

if you have spotify for example, or own the record

of course i don't have spotify wtf BUT YOUTUBE I'VE GOT YOUTUBE

Only skimmed it, but doesn't that Quietus review (like the Chris Richards one in the W. Post) not mention there was a previous Twin Shadow album?

Regarding that W.Post article, since when was indie-rock's raison d'être to provide rebel heroes? I really hate articles where an album/artist is criticized for mainly extramusical reasons. I thought the whole "real vs fake" dichotomy ended years ago, at least with music journalists.

I'm enjoying this much more than his debut. I found Forget mostly forgetful, which I thought I'd like based on his many positive reviews (80's-inspired music is my personal catnip).

interesting album

I found Forget mostly forgetful,

http://i678.photobucket.com/albums/vv149/jwalkhatesyou/sickburn.gif

"forgettable"

i like this whole album but have just abt had 'run my heart' on a continual loop the past few days

Yeah, this is quickly becoming one of my five favourite albums this year. The hooks are so fucking massive.

Those enjoying the Twin Shadow album will probably find much to like in the new Chad Valley record

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rVj0-E9mIRY

huh this guy is sort of brilliant

duh

Have been playing Confess a lot recently. I bought the first album months ago but haven't got round to playing it yet, I'm not sure what I'm saving it for really.

a cross between Phil Lynott and a genie.

cmon guys you have to admit now the 2nd album was a letdown