Band To Watch: Twin Peaks — stereogum.com

Aug 5th '14 by Chris DeVille @ 12:42pm1 Comment Rock ’n’ roll: dead? Nah dawg! Twin Peaks are carrying that torch. The youthful Chicago garage band puts the lie to other popular notions too, such as the one where music-loving teenagers only make laptop music these days, or the one where club shows are the next step after house shows (and not the other way around), or the one where bands named after beloved ’80s nostalgia totems invariably play misty chillwave jams. Wild Onion, the sophomore LP the band foists upon the world today, reaches much farther back for its retro revivalism. It’s pure late-’60s/early-’70s swagger as pilfered from the Beatles, Stooges, and Stones — especially the Stones, whose Exile On Main Street served as a loose template. Opening track “I’ve Found A New Way” struts and rages in what is in fact a very old way — an oldie but a goodie, as they say. What’s new about it is the vibrancy that only talented kiddos below drinking age can summon with any real authority. This must be what rock felt like when rock was actually still a youth movement.

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