Friday 02.03.12: Aquarium Drunkard Presents: TWIN SISTER / AVA LUNA / TALKDEMONIC @ Echo

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8:30pm / $10adv; $12dos / 18+

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Twin Sister create the kind of hypnotic pop you’ve been dreaming about since Galaxie 500 fizzled, cut with Tusk-era Fleetwood Mac thump, and a shot of Lynchian weirdness for good measure. Formed on Long Island in 2008, the band wrote and recorded extensively for two years before their second EP, Color Your Life, began garnering widespread critical acclaim, earning the band writeups in the New York Times, Spin Magazine, Pitchfork, Gorilla vs Bear, and hundreds more.

Signed to Domino Records in late 2010, the band spent that winter writing and recording in an isolated and snow covered beach house in northern Long Island, took the songs to a Philadelphia recording studio, and emerged with their most polished and wide-ranging release yet, 2011’s debut LP, In Heaven, another critical favorite. Throughout all this activity, Twin Sister have toured relentlessly, opening for Beirut, Explosions in the Sky, Pains of Being Pure at Heart, Wild Beasts, Bear in Heaven, and Real Estate, not to mention numerous headlining shows around the country and in Europe.

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“Kevin O’Connor and Lisa Molinaro, the duo behind instrumental outfit Talkdemonic, call their music “folktronic hop,” a description as cute as it is accurate. Still, it doesn’t give away all the secrets behind their complex layered sound. Talkdemonic began as a solo project for the Portland, Oregon based O’Connor, who released the overlooked and undr the radar Mutiny Sunshine in 2004. Beat Romantic is a remarkable step forward in many respects- highlighted by the permanent addition of Molinaro on viola and synth- which builds on an already sonically drenched palette of guitar, drums, keyboards and electronics. The album is certainly folk-based, in many respects: acoustic guitar can be heard weaving throughout “Mountaintops in Caves” and “Sept with Smith,” while banjo adorns the jaunty “Dusty Fluorescent/Wooden Shelves.” Arguably the most compelling elements of Talkdemonic lie with O’Connor’s precise and forceful work on the drum kit and Molinaro on the viola- which seems to sweep each song along, connecting the dots between each electronic and organic element. With post-rock currently at a new fever pitch, it would appear challenging for a band like Talkdemonic to break through the clutter, but with Beat Romantic, they have done just that, breathing some much needed linfe into the often undistinguishable world of instrumental rock.” -Andy Hurst, Skyscraper