Wednesday, February 24, 2010

Twin Tigers

Add Date: February 23

Artist: Twin Tigers

Album: Gray Waves

Label: Old Flame

Genre: Rock, shoegaze pop

Comments: The Athens band Twin Tigers make rock music that's clearly influenced by '80s and '90s psychedelic rock and shoegaze, but don't be hasty in lumping them in with other My Bloody Valentine or Jesus & Mary Chain impersonators. In the end, Gray Waves is considerably more diverse than that--check out "Everyday," which brings to mind The Strokes, or the Brit rock-leaning "Sexless Love"--and the moments that veer heavily into the JAMC end are very well done: the first two tracks, "Passive Idol" and "Red Fox Run," are terrific, no matter how liberally they may borrow from their genre's predecessors.

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