Twofold are an engagingly
inventive post-rock/hardcore band with influences running
the gamut from ‘Epic
Problem’-style Fugazi through early Hundred
Reasons to At The Drive-In. Those are Good Influences.
And ‘Hammer to the Hornet’s Nest’ and
both its b-sides are all very good songs. Intricate yet
simple guitar figures duck and dive while the rhythms
bounce all over the place under a rip-roaring three-pronged
vocal attack. Despite the occasionally wayward note and
a less-than superb (yet appealingly raw) production all
three tracks barrel along in an explosion of melody and
muscle both moving and danceable-to. I would love to
see this band live. It may not be entirely original,
sometimes bearing a more than close resemblance to the
aforementioned bands, but it’s rarely done this
well with heaps of passion married so well to musical
enterprise and invention.
Go and buy this somewhere, you lot.
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