In the ten months since Athens, Ga’s Twin Tigers released their excellent Gray Waves, the band has developed, changed, improved. Last night they were a Sonic tonic, waves of sharp sounds, overwhelming and rearranging the songs we already knew, so hard, so complete on its two guitar attack, I recognized precisely to songs and I know the album pretty damn well.
The two I did recognize were excellent. “Red Fox Run” “I want you in my power” is as great a mantra as you’ll ever hear and the extended version last night didn’t quite build -live, the band isn’t about building, it is about swirling and the song felt like a whirlpool of sound, round and round the song went, built on one riff after another.
This could be a drag or it could be something else: it was something else with its seriousness clearly intercut by guitarist Aimee Morris’ requests for a shot between songs!!
Gray Waves was a clear, nearly goth, mostly indie, Joy Division-y take on songs. And it was also a songs album: it powered itself through hooks. On stage, they power themselves through riffs: it is like a jam band if you bled out the blues and replaced it mercury.
The other song I recognised was the title track of the album. I don’t merely prefer it to the album version. I prefer it to the Interpol remix. This is a brilliant band in the process of making a name for itself.
“Brilliance” I say to Aimee after the set.
“You’re brilliant” she replies.
No, really, Twin Tigers were brilliant.