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Twin Sister: In Heaven
As might be implied by the title, In Heaven improves on 2010‘s critical darling Color Your Life EP in every possible way, showcasing the band’s wildly imaginative songwriting paired with flawless execution, by way of intense dedication to both musicianship and recording. While that record is a beautiful struggle against the realities of recording in apartments and between day jobs, In Heaven is the band unfettered by limitations – it is them streaking across a highwire under complete and total control.
As this is a debut, a little background is in order- having met while playing in various bands across both coasts of Long Island throughout their teenage years, each spied on one another covetously, while Andrea Estella (vocals) and Eric Cardona (guitar, vocals) formed an intense songwriting bond, around which the core of the band’s lyrics and imagery are built. Gabel D’Amico, Bryan Ujueta, and Udbhav Gupta were friends and impressive songwriters and musicians themselves (all play keys, Gabe bass and guitar, Bryan drums and guitar, Dev a talented sampler/engineer). When their other projects fizzled, Twin Sister inevitably formed, and the band began posting demos and ideas freely to their website with remarkable consistency (100+ over a two year period, still up on the site). Polishing their favorites, they released Color Your Life and toured relentlessly, earning praise for their raucous live show in equal measure with a torrent of fawning record reviews.
Listen closely and be rewarded: the narratives on In Heaven are subtle knockouts. Often simply a dozen or so lines, songs paint specific pictures, scenes set by the always-first music, and vividly tinted by singers Andrea and Eric, who often swap lead vocal duties back and forth during the writing process.
Daniel opens the record coyly, about a never to be realized tryst with a hotel employee, while the elegiac soul-flecked ballad Stop explores the confusion that comes with starting a new relationship (as well as Eric’s inner JT). There’s the luster and disco/funk shine of the oddball creation Bad Street that, in Andrea’s words, is about nothing more than “being poor and having fun,” followed by the bottlerocket charm of Space Babe. Kimmi is a Badalamenti-charged ghost story, Kimmi’s dead sister haunting her out of jealousy, taking the form of a rice field, destroying everything and swallowing Kimmi whole.
On side two, Luna, sister song to Space Babe (they grew out of the same demo Gabe made) is like a lost Julee Cruise encore, and Spain (written guess where) sounds like a Broadcast penned Bond song, taking the point of view of Andrea’s pets at home without her. Gene Ciampi (pronounced “Champy”) is a gloriously inventive song-as-movie-trailer homage, about an old, beloved Chinese cowboy-actor making a comeback to the big screen (“You will love his movies!”), and Saturday Sunday is a weekend romp, written long before an amateurish facsimile went viral (guess). Eastern Green points the way home- saving their widest dynamic range for last, it’s noise-shaded peaks and corset-tight arrangement show that their limits are not our own.
To the core, Twin Sister is a capital (p) Pop band. The songs on In Heaven radiate and glow, a firework show set against a broad black canvas. Youthful exuberance echoes throughout. Taken as a whole, In Heaven proves itself a document of endless preparation and excited execution, the fulfilled promise of bliss.