Twinkranes - Spektrumtheatresnakes

An explosive launch for Dublin’s space-rock programme

Krautrock obsessives are our kind of people, and Twinkranes – a “psychedelic power trio” from Dublin – have commendably taken it upon themselves to filter Krautrock’s weighty influences through the sensuous prism of pop and dance music.

Accordingly, Anto (aka Blonde Fox), Rooster and Ray (aka Auburn Spinner) lock into their urgently speeding motorik grooves with an absolutely livid, murderous focus, and proceed to ride them into the deck while subtly teasing out those warped and giddy psych curlicues. On the face of it, High Tekk Train Wreck, The Charmer and Witch Hunt do the Neu! thing with panache; hypnotic four-to-thefloor drumming and questing, sepulchral, heavily processed guitars and synths. However, where Neu! always sounded as though they were accelerating towards the crest of a hill which never arrived, Twinkranes sound as though they’re permanently teetering on the edge of a precipice. Their eerily unresolved chord suspensions factor in a deliciously unbearable air of tension, while their tireless, bloody-minded forward thrust resembles Suicide at their most intransigent.

The stunned, dislocated and doggedly cyclical Spores rounds out the experience like a thousand-yard-stare comedown. A highly persuasive debut.

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Twisted Nerve | TN 090

Reviewed by Marco Rossi
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