Add to playlist: the ramshackle, soulful twang of Twisted Teens and the week’s best new tracks
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The New Orleans country-punk duo are on a hot streak, about to release their third album in a year, and the crunchy, literate hooks keep coming From New Orleans Recommended if you like Parquet Courts, Sheer Mag, Royal Headache Up next Holy Cross Tigers out later this year Not one but two of the year’s best albums so fa
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The New Orleans country-punk duo are on a hot streak, about to release their third album in a year, and the crunchy, literate hooks keep coming From New Orleans Recommended if you like Parquet Courts, Sheer Mag, Royal Headache Up next Holy Cross Tigers out later this year Not one but two of the year’s best albums so far are authored by a ragtag, deeply charismatic band from Louisiana named Twisted Teens, who bear Pynchonian names – Caspian Hollywell and RJ “Razor Ramone” Santos – a console steel guitar and, in Hollywell’s case, one of rock’s greatest, most soulful voices in many years.
Virtuosic when it counts, ramshackle when necessary, Twisted Teens feel like they could slot nicely on to a bill with Parquet Courts and the late, great Royal Headache – crunchy, literary rock bands who seemed to shyly conceal their music’s anthemic nature.
Twisted Teens broke through earlier this year with their second album Blame the Clown, a set of 12 country-punk tracks that’s hooky and effusive enough to give any major-label pop record released this year a run for its money.
A couple of weeks ago, they released its followup, the rangier and slightly more introspective Florida Water Blues, and be
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