by Dan Goldin (@post_trash_)
Hailing from Adelaide, Australia, Twine are set to release their second single, “Same Old Problems” on Friday, April 1st, a song that’s built on tension and release. Last year the band released their first single “Cleaner,” attracting an international interest in the process. The band’s sound is best described as a mix of emotional post-hardcore and atmospheric arrangements, bringing to mind a place somewhere between We Were Promised Jetpacks, Unwound, and Dirty Three. Their music is sprawling and intense, with compositions that weave and shift, building toward explosive crescendos in a non-direct path. Twine are making music as cinematic as it is volatile, capturing a set of caustic feelings that always seem to erupt.
Having expanded to a quintet, the band make use of their dynamic range, opting for creaking strings that set both beauty and dread in motion. “Same Old Problems,” a song about dealing with grief is sweeping, but it’s also combustible, with sludgy riffs pairing together with the gentle strings, pulling us back and forth between chaotic and serene moments. It’s a rollercoaster of a composition, translating that feeling of grief, and the sometimes futile attempts to work past it. The song winds and twists, building that aforementioned tension into a knotted fury until Thomas Katsaras’ vocals reach a blood curdling aggression and subtly is thrown out the window.