Review Summary: Twinspan grew up...
Twinspan was a dream project set to succeed by several coming and going members all wanting to prove that they could make music to the best of their abilities. It all fell apart and the band broke up. Reid Markham, the bassist of Twinspan, reached out to me and asked me to write this review.
Right away this EP is far moodier than the previous effort and surprisingly doesn't sound like it was mixed in a trash can. A lot of the album sounds like a send-off and a big fat "*** you" to all those that never believed in Twinspan. Far more abrasive and more self-aware than ever before Twinspan finally made the music they wanted to...
Which makes this far sadder. Twinspan shows promise genuine promise that was squandered. Either by pride or inner artistic struggles, you can tell why I was sent this dead album to review. The band is proud of themselves. The band tried and it really shows. There are no more vocal interludes for ABSOLUTELY no reason. Which is a far better way to approach the writing process, in my opinion.
Darker writing evolved instrumentation that shows growth, promise, and passion. Twinspan learned from their previous album, which if we learned anything from it's that you shouldn't allow the frontman to mix the album, because, let's be honest with ourselves that sounded like garbage filtered through a pile of ***. However, this doesn't.
To put it simply The Purple Saber Affliction isn't anything new but it never had to. Metalcore has been done to death lately and Twinspan surprisingly does (Metalcore) some justice for once. I recommend today instead of listening to more stroke yourself sad tunes from the likes of NMH and Death Grips you stop stroking your collective hipster cocks and listen to Twinspan.
A link is below...
https://youtu.be/kcMqfrj7ZdI
