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Pedro Gonçalves

Live Review: Twin Shadow / Live Music Reviews / Music News from THE-FLY.CO.UK - The UK'... - 0 views

  • one of the most impressive live acts around.
  • Twin Shadow turn everything up when they play live, the tempo is faster, the choruses more urgent and the feeling that the band want their audience to have a good time is palpable.
  • one of 2010’s best new bands
Pedro Gonçalves

Twin Shadow - Crawdaddy, Dublin - Live Review | State Magazine - 0 views

  • The guitar is the weapon of choice here, taking a place it doesn’t have on the record (the guitar solo on ‘Forget’ is rocked out for all its worth), while live drums lend the songs a fuller feel.
  • these are early days for Twin Shadow – the band formed last year
  • the spunky attitude he displays onstage
Pedro Gonçalves

Pitchfork: Album Reviews: Twin Shadow: Forget - 0 views

  • George Lewis, Jr.'s self-described bizarre and lonely childhood forms the backdrop for his work as Twin Shadow, and he uses the sounds of the past as a foundation. But while the 26-year-old Brooklynite's music is steeped in 1980s new wave-- he sometimes takes on Morrissey's vocal tone and phrasing, and threads of British bands like Echo and the Bunnymen and Depeche Mode run through his songs-- Lewis does well by this much-revisited era
  • he mostly sticks with a small collection of synth sounds-- strings, organ, piano, and brass-- along with electric guitar and drum machine.
  • Grizzly Bear's Chris Taylor handling production,
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  • Lewis' execution is immaculate, and he manages to make these familiar sounds into something that sounds refreshing and even dazzling.
  • Taken whole, Forget feels undeniably of the moment, fitting in nicely with the craftsmanship of 80s pop revivalists like the Pains of Being Pure at Heart, Lewis' labelmate Class Actress, and, to some degree, the xx.
  • Instead of merely evoking an established style, Lewis' songs feel honest and straightforward, so the new wave glances are a vehicle for the songwriting rather than the whole point.
Pedro Gonçalves

Twin Shadow. Live at The Deaf Institute. Manchester. 26/01/2011 « CITYLIFERS ... - 0 views

  • speeding things up a notch or two, and giving the songs a slightly rockier edge. As a result some of the layers and intricacies that are present on the album are lost, but it’s a testament to the strength of the songs and the enthusiasm with which they are delivered that they are still just as poignant and enjoyable. 
  • The one notable exception is early single ‘Slow,’ which is one of the highlights on record. The speeded up live version whizzes by fairly ineffectively, and the vocal seems lacklustre and hollow, but this remains a small gripe in an otherwise excellent set. 
Pedro Gonçalves

campainha electrica: TWIN SHADOW, Teatro Mun. Vila do Conde, 26 de Maio de 2011 - 0 views

  • senhor George Lewis Jr., envergando um chapéu tipo porteiro de hotel (ou à Spirou, como perpicazmente alguém notou)
  • A voz nem sempre esteve no ponto e o mesmo se poderá dizer de alguns arranjos de guitarra, demasiado deslocadas em relação aos originais, a roçar, por vezes, um som a la Simple Minds dos (maus) velhos tempos. 
Pedro Gonçalves

BBC - Music - Review of Twin Shadow - Forget - 0 views

  • George Lewis – AKA Twin Shadow – makes synth-led bedroom music that sounds at once thoroughly new wave and thoroughly fresh.
  • on first impression this is so slick it’s easy to ignore the layers of details
  • Tyrant Destroyed sets the scene – it’s a loving reconstruction of 80s synth-pop, by a solo artist alone in his room; the music low in the mix, as he lays down a sleepy sounding vocal.
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  • When We’re Dancing is the most stylised, almost camp, piece of electro-chamber-pop, harking back to The Associates or Ultravox.
  • the album’s most exuberant, danceable moment, I Can’t Wait – borne on a melodic bassline that would have The Cure or The Police wondering if they mislaid it, ripples of Moroder-style synths, and a soaring vocal that shows Lewis isn’t afraid to sing like he’s been trained.
  • Castles in the Snow verges on comedy goth, with its deliberately cheap-sounding organ. But its processed, desolate moans and the cute-but-twisted sentiments – "you’re my favourite nightmare" – somehow add up to it being one of the best things here
  • weirdly quacking keys and chinking guitars beneath the prominent synth-string vamps on (say) Shooting Holes at the Moon that make it seem so 80s, or the fluting ‘naïve melody’ of Slow that recalls Talking Heads
  • a magnificently accomplished debut.
Pedro Gonçalves

Twin Shadow @ Lux, Lisboa | Ponto Alternativo - 0 views

  • Se o álbum tem músicas com melodias introspectivas, em concerto elas ganham uma nova vida tornando-se muito mais electrónicas, distorcidas e muito fortes, não dando espaço para a menor melancolia.
  • presentearam-nos com uma música nova
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