Mr Twin Sister

Don't know why this group decided to add the "Mr" to their name, it feels awkward to me, but then I never paid attention to them before really so whatever the fuck.

Brad and Deej hipped me to their new album and first under this moniker, and they were so so right, brad says "smoke weed listen to sade" and deej says "maurice fulton" and I say not much cos I keep listening to this instead. But it does make me imagine an album built around the aesthetic that A Mountain of One explored shamefully only once on their cover of "Can't Be Serious" with Martina Topley Bird. Anyway I'm totally obsessed with it and so should you be.

In The House Of Yes:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gmpwRErrrsk

Out Of The Dark:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IAOvZEobgQw

I think this should appeal to my balearic crew, to my sade crew, to my dixon crew, all crews welcome in fact.

i am a woman
but inside i'm a man
and i want to be as gay as i can

I want an extended version of "Out of the Dark". I suppose I could always mess around with freeware audio editors again.

The most implausible part of the Veronica Mars movie was that Twin Sister's "All Around and Away We Go" was presented as a hit for a Katy Perry-like pop star.

I'd seen this name on places like Pitchfork, but I had no idea Twin Sister had added "Mr" to the name. I just thought it was someone different.

This sounds totally unlike what they sounded like 3-4 years ago.

I think that's the reason for the change but i still don't like it, it feels like they had a messy car crash with Mr Mr.

THE MUSIC IS GREAT THOUGH.

Listening to the album now. I'm on board.

Legal threats from another Twin Sister, “the self-proclaimed greatest Star Wars funk band,” who performed in full costume.

Out of the Dark is a bop. Wish it didn't end so abruptly.

I think their first album is underrated.

i also wish "out of the dark" were longer and i maybe wish "twelve angels" were shorter

best side one i've heard all year though

i love this album. some of it sounds like bjork doing linda difranco and sade covers.

This album is really something. Balearic/Dixon/Sade is so right, I can't believe nobody tried it before.

Ta for this.

cool, feelin it

"Blush" especially on the Sade (also thinkin if we could get Jessie Ware on some of this weed but would she b paranoid)

Listening to album now on Spotify goddam---dream pop & bass? No lack of personality or atmosphere

2011 alb very good too so damn confident but no time for smug "Beep beep."

Loved their EPs in 2009-10 - think "All Around And Away We Go" was my favourite track by anyone that year - then found their first LP in 2011 to be a huge let-down, just a few highlights and "Saturday Sunday" was just terrible. Will try to check out their new stuff with an open mind.

btw this record

So good. One of my late discoveries (Thanks to Johnny Fever for having it in his albums of the year list) but already very high on my own list.

first four tracks completely devastate me at this point

Yeah the first half is just gorgeous. The second half seems so unexpected after those songs but it somehow it really works as a whole album.

i like everything on it

is there even a real me
or am i just a series of nights

This LP is now my favourite this year, not a weak spot on it, glad they've stopped trying to be an indie band and embraced this strung-out 5am post-disco thing, her voice deserves it.

i found this album very pleasant to listen to and every time it has gone straight in one ear and out the other

easy glistening album of the year

I think that's the reason for the change but i still don't like it, it feels like they had a messy car crash with Mr Mr.

― Tim F, Friday, October 3, 2014 5:51 PM (1 month ago) Bookmark

Tim do you mean the K-pop band MR.MR???

Sadly I meant Mr Mister of "Broken Wings".

Hmm, in my memory, this thread was way longer.

biggest gap between the awfulness of the band name and the quality of the music?

I think I did most of my enthusing on Facebook with brad & deej

Pretty sure I overlooked this on the basis of the terrible name too.

nearly overlooked it on the basis of 1) their name 2) the previous associations i had re: their sound 3) who was writing about them

thankfully a friend whose taste i really trust recommended it to me

It took many co-signs for me to check it out.

I never actually saw anyone talking about or recommending them, just the name!

i love this record so much and it really should've been no. 1 on my ballot

it has this really wonderful dual quality of being smoky and precise, dreamy and present

yeah it's one of the best things to happen ever. still remember the feeling hearing 'in the house of yes' for the first time, when the disco strings came in.

it has this really wonderful dual quality of being smoky and precise, dreamy and present

― emo canon in twee major (BradNelson), Thursday, 29 January 2015 23:15 (Yesterday) Permalink

otm

This is great, my favorite discovery so far from the poll results.

not too in to the silent-shout-style tracks on the back half of this record, but overall its def my favorite discovery from the EOY top 77 polls.

max already invoked bjork, which is what i hear the most-- specifically the lush floral stuff from "Post"

this is my favorite discovery from the albums poll too

first 2 tracks are perfect

wow @ this

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4wfKe9uwGhA

i forgot she dropped nbombs smh sorry

that sentiment, tho

Newest song continues their penchant for slick grooves, although I guess they a different vocalist for this one?

https://mrtwinsister.bandcamp.com/album/the-erotic-book

That's really nice.

i actually love this one lol

oh "fantasy" rules so much

very good album once again

oh hi i finally listened to them and they rule

Loving this new album on first listen

rt

liking it a lot on first listen, tho not as immediately enraptured as i was with salt. love the dubby track ("pine"), that one is lots of fun, and "ballerino" sounds even better in album context

best band in the world

them and tricot

tricot/mr twin sister world tour for me only please

I'll take twin sister/shy layers/erika de casier world tour pls

also digging the hi-nrg vibes of "carmen"

the Erika De Casier show I saw last week was phenomenal despite the world's worst venue FYI

Mr Twin Sister continue to amaze too

I was there too - didn't mind the venue that much. small but

wish I had known, I'd have bought you a pint! I spent 9/10ths of the set unable to see anything, the choice to have a "stage" that's barely an inch higher than the crowd space means a 5ft5 wisp like me either needs to be down the front or resign themselves to the view of the back of somebody's head.

even the tracks i wasn't as enthusiastic about pre-release sound so much better in the context of the full album

ya this is hitting super hard. 'expressions' is amazing

i kind of prefer them in post-disco mode than in fever ray mode

"carmen" is incredible

band is on fire

This album is delightful. I love how lush and detailed it is - it feels like there's always about a hundred details going at any given moment - while retaining its light, airy effervescence.

best band

Great album. I never fully connected with Salt, but this one is so instant.

^ exactly what I would say

Five bonus tracks!

Coming soon: expanded Japanese edition of Al Mundo Azul via @plancha_92104 . A limited edition CD run with 5 bonus tracks and special packaging/foldout insert. A standard Vinyl release is in the works too, but this special item drops first. pic.twitter.com/pBMRT5VYKP

— Mr Twin Sister (@twinsistermusic) February 4, 2022

thanks! ordered, reasonable to the US.

They were on fire, as usual, in SF last night. >:D

ooh surprise new ep today, upright and even

this rules, especially "resort"

Love this.

Getting Ultramarine 'Bel Air' vibes off Resort

playing a free nyc live show in february that i'll post a link to here when it's announced

nice

missed that ep from earlier this year, ufo otm, resort is a great great song

xxp please do. great show at Elsewhere a couple weeks ago.

https://lincolncenter.org/series/lincoln-center-presents/mr-twin-sister-320

Friday May 12, 2023 at 8pm
Mr Twin Sister at The David Rubenstein Atrium at Lincoln Center, NYC
Free to enter until at capacity, Arrive at least 1/2 hour early for your best chance to get in!
Seating and entry are first-come, first-served; the line will form at the Atrium’s entrance on Broadway, between 62nd and 63rd Street.

Brooklyn-based indie pop band Mr Twin Sister have headlined sets at Elsewhere, Warsaw, and Bowery Ballroom. The group's Lincoln Center debut reimagines the space as an exclusive rock club, minus the cover. Mr Twin Sister's early EPs announced the band's signature brand of musically omnivorous dreamy disco, but they first gained international recognition when Kendrick Lamar sampled their single "Meet the Frownies" for his breakout hit "The Recipe." Four albums later, the quartet has established themselves as among the scene's most respected and influential institutions. Pitchfork said Mr Twin Sister's latest release, 2022's Upright and Even, "exists to be danced to... each song is self aware, mature and sexy." Bring a partner or find one at the Atrium for a night of ecstasy.

My nine year old son, out of the blue, just asked me about Meet The Frownies - an early song from when they were just Twin Sister.
Turns out a "Phonk" remix is currently massive on tiktok and now youtube too

https://mrtwinsister.bandcamp.com/album/mr-twin-sister-demos-outtakes-b-sides

Ten year anniversary of the self-titled, marked with a free Bandcamp release of demos and alternative versions

omg

can’t believe it’s been 10 years ;_;

best thing here is "working title (medford version)"

anyone know what's up with them? no live shows or new music in some time, and they are so great live.

i was really into their 2008-11 run and then again from Salt onward but somehow never got to the s/t, guess now's a good time

They are truly a national treasure and anything new or archival is great to have. I last saw them in Seattle in maybe 2017 and they were unreal. My completely unfounded guess it that Andrea’s MS battle limits their band functions.

i have yet to test this out but i feel like the s/t may be the best album to have sex to

i was really into their 2008-11 run and then again from Salt onward but somehow never got to the s/t, guess now's a good time

― moral ziosk (geoffreyess), Monday, September 23, 2024 8:13 PM (yesterday) bookmarkflaglink

daang lucky you

the 2011 Twin Sister LP is their only misfire imo (though Bad Street is good)

the extended "sensitive," omg

under normal circumstances i would hate calling anything "peak music," but... peak music

appreciate how live-feeling these expanded outtakes are

i am a woman
but inside i'm a man
and i want to be as gay as i can

― emo canon in twee major (BradNelson), Friday, October 3, 2014 5:22 PM (nine years ago) bookmarkflaglink

xxxpost - Ivy, play it next time. I can attest. It is!