Hi-N-Dry
2007
Twinetime
About This Album
It will take about ten seconds into Twinemen's third studio disc to recognize the distinctive "low music" Morphine sound. "The End of My Dreams" kicks off with that familiar lugubrious bassline, in the pocket drums and a generally eerie, even nightmarish vibe. Laurie Sargent's wistful vocals are the band's special sauce slathered over a sandwich of the ex-Morphine Dana Colley's foghorn sax and Billy Conway's spatial percussion. Notes included with press copies of the disc describe a recording process where these tunes sprung out of jams and were later hammered into songs. That accounts for the unconventional structures, most of which don't conform to typical verse-chorus-bridge parameters. The album's blurry black and white photos accurately reflect the music which is similarly hazy, murky and often experimental. Colley runs his sax through processing that often distorts it into resembling a guitar at times ("Eddie Edison") and even an entire horn section ("Come Clean"). The band pulls, pushes, tugs, expands and contracts its established sound throughout, transforming it into a somewhat funhouse-mirror image of itself. Occasionally that makes for uneasy listening as in "Come Clean," which never seems to find its groove.
Track List (try tracks 1,2,3,4,5 and 6)

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