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TWIN PEAKS – ” Holding Roses / “Walk to the One You Love ” WFUV Session

Posted: December 20, 2016 in MUSIC
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Twin Peaks with Eric Holland at WFUV

Twin Peaks regard the musical growth shown on their third album, “Down in Heaven”, as a matter of course. In fact, doing what comes naturally has served these young Chicago rockers well. They followed their debut, Sunken, three years ago, with a more nuanced sophomore release, “Wild Onion”. Now with the release of “Down In Heaven”, Twin Peaks’ recordings show a burgeoning ensemble making increasingly thoughtful recordings.

Guitarist and singer Cadien Lake James and bassist and vocalist Jack Dolan represented their mates in the interview. They cautioned against positioning them as having moved beyond their wild youth. Twin Peaks is keen to get their kicks on the road while embracing all the phases and changes of the talented group. Listen where Twin Peaks are at right now in this WFUV Live session.

Twin Peaks performs “Holding Roses” live in Studio A. Recorded 5.24.16.

Twin Peaks performs “Walk to the One You Love” live in Studio A. Recorded 5.24.16.

TWIN PEAKS – ” Walk To The One You Love “

Posted: December 8, 2016 in CLASSIC ALBUMS, MUSIC
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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.

TWIN PEAKS – ” Down In Heaven ” Best Albums of 2016

Posted: December 2, 2016 in CLASSIC ALBUMS, MUSIC
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These Windy City bros aren’t just a great power pop band, they’re one of the best rock bands going, period. They work in a bit more layered jangle and production ambition than most on this list, but not so much that it strangles the pals-on-a-summer-road trip vibe that takes them from Beach Boys vistas to dive bar bathrooms.

Our last run was an awesome tour of Europe where we returned to Madrid and stopped in Barcelona for the first time in Spain played a truly joyous sold out show in Paris, where we also performed live on the French TV show Album De La Semaine, had a blast running around the UK, Almost collapsed in Bristol and played a massive London show at Scala, hit a beautifully intimate gig in Brussels for the first time and finally wrapped up with a great run around the Netherlands.

Last but certainly not least, maybe number one, The last leg of 2016 “DOWN IN HEAVEN” tour.  We’re looking at going to, Detroit, Cleveland, Toronto, Burlington, Portland (ME), Cambridge, Philly, New York, Richmond, Atlanta, Nashville!. We’re adding a couple treats into the set. And we wrap up in Chicago with all our wonderful brothers and sisters of the windy city.

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A limited-edition peach vinyl re-pressing of Down In Heaven will be available in record shops early next year. But, if you come party with us now you won’t have to wait cause we’ll have them on the road! This is what they look like. But you know they’ll look even better on your record player. When it comes to the catchiest songs of this year, Twin Peaks  “Walk To The One You Love” is easily high on the list. The opening track to their third album Down In Heaven is effortlessly buoyant and made to stick around. Vibrantly-textured production and bold arrangements bolster other album highlights including “Holding Roses” and “You Don’t,” two not quite-carefree odes to love that isn’t all that romantic.

 

TWIN PEAKS – ” I Found A New Way “

Posted: October 22, 2016 in MUSIC
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Chicago scuzz-mongers Twin Peaks have always been heavily indebted to the ’60s — their second album, 2014’s Wild Onion, even referenced the Beach Boys album title in its artwork — but with their third album, Down in Heaven, which came out on Grand Jury Records, they’ve narrowed their focus to one year in particular: 1968. “I’ve been particularly drawn to records that have a more personal feel,” singer-guitarist Cadien James explains in the album’s press material. “Not necessarily lyrically, but in sonic aesthetic, like the Kinks’ Village Green Society, Beatles’ White Album, and Rolling Stones’ Beggar’s Banquet.” All three of those albums were ’68 releases, and indeed, much of Down in Heaven shares the sort of intimate,morning-after feel of those records and guitar sounds of those aforementioned bands.

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Twin Peaks an American indie band from Chicago. The band’s musical style is regarded as a mixture of “’60s Garage Rock the band “spends half their time as a chugging power chords and half as a winsome power pop band. The band’s musical style on their debut album has been described as a “sloppy,  Replacements inspired rock” while the band’s second album features “a garage-rock sound that touches on everything from fuzz-soaked psych and punk.  The band consists of Cadien Lake James (vocals, guitar), Clay Frankel (vocals, guitar), Jack Dolan (vocals, bass), Colin Croom (keys, vocals, guitar) and Connor Brodner (drums).

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TWIN PEAKS – ” Butterfly “

Posted: May 21, 2016 in MUSIC
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As of now, our new record Down In Heaven is out around the world!. Accompanying the release is the debut of our video for “Butterfly,” directed by our pal Ezra Ewen, shot on 16mm film around graveyards and forest preserves in Chicago. We’re real proud of both the record and this video, we hope you enjoy them as much as we enjoyed making them.

The latest video to be Twin Peaked all over is their latest single ‘Butterfly’. After first seeing the lyric video we were happy to see a new addition to the band’s quirky take on video promo.

‘Butterfly’ is just as rough and ready as previous efforts and hits the same retro-driven notes as the song. A gently rocking, classic sound drenched in wooden values and flecked with a freshness that makes Twin Peaks one of the more important bands around at the minute.

Filmed in the band’s hometown of Chicago, and created by Ezra Ewen, the video is a twisted, ceremony. Conjured up by guitarist and vocalist Clay Frankel and loosely based on the acid trip scene from film Easy Rider.

Chicago rock-outfit Twin Peaks have shown a great deal of maturity on their grown-up new album Down In Heaven, recently released via Grand Jury Music. 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.

 

TWIN PEAKS – ” Walk To The One You Love “

Posted: February 4, 2016 in MUSIC
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Chicago garage band (and Hype Hotel alums) Twin Peaks announce their third album, which—if this poppier, Americana-infused single is any indication—finds them “shaking off their rough edges to embrace a more classic, polished sound,”

From the forthcoming 3rd LP from Twin Peaks, “Down In Heaven.”

To be released May 13th on Grand Jury (N. America) / Communion Records(ROW)

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The JOY FORMIDABLE – ” Falling ” Twin Peaks Soundtrack Cover

Posted: August 2, 2015 in MUSIC
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For over five years, Welsh trio the Joy Formidable have been making wonderful, headstrong records that combine hard-rock intensity with shoegaze’s dense trippiness. Wolf’s Law and The Big Roar are the easiest for American types to get ahold of, and if you dig bands like Curve, they’re probably well within your zone (but if I’m in the mood for this kind of thing, frankly I way prefer TJF over Curve). Just this afternoon, the band released a nicely reverbed-out cover of the Twin Peaks theme song, “Falling.” Between the series’ 25th anniversary taking place this year, and the announcement of new episodes coming in 2017, I suppose we should all brace ourselves for a lot of this sort of thing coming up.

“We had some time during the making of our new album to get excited that a new series of Twin Peaks is on the horizon,” the band told Welcome to Twin Peaks. “Here’s our tribute to that legendary series and it’s beautiful theme music by Angelo Badalamenti.”

They (or someone) also cobbled together a video compilation of scenes from the series. Which is at once quite nice and too bad—a performance video probably would have been a lot of fun.

TWIN PEAKS – ” Got Your Money “

Posted: April 14, 2015 in MUSIC
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If you’ve been hoping to hear more of Twin Peaks’ ragtag garage pop since devouring last year’s debut, “Wild Onion”, you’re in luck. The Chicago outfit has a freshly pressed orange vinyl — featuring their awesomely idiosyncratic “In The Morning (In The Evening)” — ready for Record Store Day next weekend. The B-side of that disc, however, features an older, charming Twin Peaks track called “Got Your Money” that saunters along with hooks buried in a stoned, paranoid haze. As the band said, “It is one of the earliest Twin Peaks songs, essentially a lost number from the “Sunken” days. It’s a song loosely born around the movie True Romance, but upon its revival was also inspired by current events in our country.

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TWIN PEAKS – ” In The Morning ( In The Evening ) “

Posted: February 14, 2015 in MUSIC
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Today we are premiering a song Clay wrote called “In the Morning (In the Evening),” . It will be released on 7” clear orange vinyl in a few months with another song that some early fans may recognize  more info on that in the coming weeks. This was our first experience recording directly to 2″ Tape, using an entirely analog setup at the wonderful Treehouse Records. We loved the vintage process and are psyched for everyone to hear it. Twin Peaks is an American rock band from Chicago, Illinois, formed in 2009. The band consists of vocalist and guitarist Cadien Lake James, guitarist Clay Frankel, bassist Jack Dolan and drummer Connor Brodner.

Photo: Daniel Topete/NME

Twin Peaks may have risen up in the shadow of fellow Chicagoans The Orwells but – whisper it – they’re actually the better songwriters. With an appreciation for classic rock’n’roll from The Kinks to The Strokes, they’re alarmingly prolific, not to mention one of the best live garage acts around today.

TWIN PEAKS – ” Making Breakfast “

Posted: January 22, 2015 in MUSIC
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On their second album, these Chicagoans bring the goodtime bar-pop no doubt, but there’s a higher level of tune smithery here than your best bro’s band, not to mention one sick-ass drummer. That debated bump-up in production was just what the band needed to expose their super-strong, shiny hooks and brief, melodic, flowery byways they skid onto. Speaking of which, all that touring honed them into a tight little gang live too.

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