New music review with singles from Terra Twin and Comfort Girl
- Julia Mason aka The Decibel Decoder
- 11 hours ago
- 2 min read
Our weekly fix of the best new music as Julia Mason (aka The Decibel Decoder) brings us her new music review with singles from Terra Twin Parking Lot and Comfort Girl Dominance
Artist: Terra Twin
Track: Parking Lot
London Indie risers Terra Twin announce new EP Scumbag for 5 June and share new single Parking Lot. In May/June they support fellow London band World News for a string of European dates.
Partnering with Grammy nominated producer James Dring (Gorillaz, Self Esteem, Sorry, Jamie T) on mixing duties for the Scumbag EP, Terra Twin refine their Americana tinged story-telling-led sound.
Parking Lot lands as the first taste of this new project. It opens with uncanny synth/murmured vocal dynamics before it quickly kicks into motorik life, offering vocalist Maxim Baldry the platform to launch a cathartic chorus, interwoven with Lewis Spear’s serpentine guitar playing.
On the new single, the band say: “This song exists as a funhouse that pits an airy dreamscape against the raw reality of a dysfunctional relationship.” Bodes very well for the EP.
Terra Twin Live Dates
May
27 - Paris, Supersonic
29 - Groningen, Simplon
30 - Rotterdam, De Kropoekfabriek
31 - Amsterdam, Cinetol
June
2 - Hamburg, MS Stubnitz
3 - Hanover, Lux
4 - Berlin, Neue Zukunft
All with World News
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Artist: Comfort Girl
Track: Dominance
Scotland quartet Comfort Girl release their new single Dominance. Originally aiming to be a shoegaze band, they hadn’t written anything they were particularly happy with until guitarist Liam, who is influenced by metal, played the riff in a band rehearsal.
Energised they knew they had to do something with it. Lead singer and lyricist Andy hadn’t screamed or even shouted on a song until this point, but her writing style had already shifted into that world.
Andy shares more on Dominance: "The lyrics came from some work I was doing outside of my studies. I held a protest to fight against rampant misogyny, I organised speakers, musicians, poets and we held our demonstration in Edinburgh. It was an incredibly sad but also fulfilling day, and I knew I didn’t want to stop there. I organised bedroom sessions platforming and filming female musicians ‘mini sets’. This and the anger and resentment I was carrying for my own continual trauma throughout my early teens to early twenties fuelled the lyrics for Dominance and completely changed my writing style as a whole."
Combining Andy's angry, unsettled words and Liam's blistering riffs, Dominance gave Comfort Girl their sound.
The track was recorded with Blair Crichton (Dead Pony) at 45-a-side studios, experimenting with the Korg MS-20 for noise, as well as an old police radio that had been modified to work as a microphone. Just listen to the gloriously distorted vocals at the end.
Comfort Girl play 1990 in Glasgow on 9 May as part of Scottish Music Collective's four Year celebrations.
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