Twin Peaks surprised me with their mature new album Down In Heaven which came earlier in the year via Grand Jury Music. It’s a very grown up next step for the band who took their sound into a new direction that makes me even more hopeful about their potential future than I already was. They’ve honed in on their songwriting craft, proving them to be one of the most exciting bands making their way up the ranks of the current rock and roll scene.
Not to be confused with the short-lived David Lynch show—or maybe that’s kind of the point?—Chicago’s Twin Peaks are a young band. In fact, its members were barely born when the program went off the air in 1991. But on their third full-length release Down in Heaven, the band’s sound reaches a level of maturity that wasn’t present on 2013’s Sunken or 2014’s Wild Onion. Yes, they’re still brash and reckless and, more than anything, fun, but with a few extra years on them, they’ve molded that reckless spirit into a multifaceted collection of songs that brings to mind the Rolling Stones at their twangiest.
The Fat Angel Sings 