Twen

One Liner: Really great indie rock band from Nashville

Wikipedia Genre: No Wikipedia, but indie rock

Home: Nashville

Poster Position: New addition to the poster
Weekend Two Only.  Friday.

Thoughts:  Wikipedia thinks that twen was a West German magazine published from 1959 to 1971, known for its innovative design and typography.  WTF.  Who is going to read an entire magazine when all that is good about it is the typeface that they are using in it?  "Oooh, I really love the Helvetica they used for that sidebar, it really sparkles next to the Trebuchet they used in the main article."  TWEN also stands for a Westlaw online course teaching tool for law schools.  So far, this is making this band sound deeply boring.  Fonts and law school classes, wheeeee!

But in actuality, this is some really tasty indie rock stuff.  They have previously toured in support of White Reaper, and that is a show that sounds pretty slick to me.  The main pair - Ian Jones and Jane Fitzsimmons - came up in Boston, playing punk, before moving to Nashville together to change up their sound into a sort of indie rock/psych rock/alternative thing that is really very good.

Two albums - 2019's Awestruck and 2022's One Stop Shop.  The entirety of their top ten is from the new album, which makes some sense, as it is great.  The first album had two bigger tracks - "Waste" and "Damsel."  The second one of those has a pretty great video to go with it, and is the stream king with 212k streams.

Dirt bikes!  Joyful guitars!  Blue skies!  Jumping for joy!  Sweet Twn track suit things!  The sound on that track is definitely deferent than the new album - more reverb and kind of a shoegazey quality to the guitars and vocals.  Kind of reminds me of The Sundays - great band!

The top song is from the new album and is titled "HaHaHome," with 278k streams.  I'm disappointed in the world that no one is streaming these guys.  I'm thoroughly enjoying.

The effect of that video is disorienting me - with the lags of the video.  Also, looks like they've added a full band now and not just the two main people.  I dig the things she is doing with her voice on that one.  Love it!  "Brooklyn Bridge" has a wistful sound that is super appealing as well, it isn't all harder edged stuff.  I'd go watch them in a heartbeat.