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| 1. Ice Cream Sundae |
| 2. Wide Awake |
| 3. The Neighbour |
| 4. Either Way |
| 5. Push The Ghosts |
| 6. Reap What You Sow |
| 7. Loosely Dancing |
| 8. Two Lovers |
| 9. Don't Wait Up |
| 10. Got Me Sussed |
| 11. Cloudy Room |
| 12. Website Link |
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Bigged up by everyone from Noel Gallagher to Terry Wogan, it's been almost impossible to escape the buzz swarming around this lot ever since they signed a whopping record deal with B-Unique (Kaiser Chiefs, The Automatic) last December. With murmurings of the next Happy Mondays, infamous tales about samurai swords and bar room brawls leaking out of Brum, The Twang's ever growing laddish reputation has continued to swell at pace.
After gate-crashing the charts with the hook laden U2-esque belter "Wide Awake", the Bimingham band's debut Love It When I Feel Like This has landed just in time for the festival season. So does it really live up to the hype? Obviously the haters won't think so as they continue to decry the Brummie band as mere baggy copyists. Yet while their anthemic sound does have a certain whiff of The Streets, The Happy Mondays, Flowered Up, The Stone Roses and Oasis, the great thing about The Twang is they've got the tunes to back up their cocksure swagger.
Take current single ''Either Way'' for instance. Come Glastonbury every beered up festival-goer is gonna be hugging their mates and chanting "I love ya!" to the hairstanding sound of frontman Phil Etheridge's heart wrenching vocals while Martin Saunders (Brum's answer To Bez) croons "I feel so better today/Chase the bad things away". Likewise the groovy lad stomp of "Ice Cream Sundae" and the pulsating "Push The Ghosts", all coloured in by Stu Hartland's swaggering guitar licks, are likely to send limbs flailing across the whole of Worthy Farm when they're finally unleashed on the masses.
So what's bad about Love It When I Feel Like This? Well the lyrics for a start. While Etheridge's vocals may nod towards messieurs Skinner and Ryder, they lack the same razor sharp wit which made his forefathers so great particularly on stand out singles "Wide Awake" ('Feels like my teeth are pouring out/ From all the gibberish that's been pouring out my mouth') and "Either Way" ('Cuz it's always your favourite top you bin/ but think man it could have been your skin').
Aside from that, Love It When I Feel Like This is littered with songs you just wanna hug your mates to. For that you've gotta love The Twang. --Damian Jones
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Birmingham quintet The Twang have been derided as "baggy copyists" but the baggy feel only adds to this raw and varied debut album. The guitar sound layered throughout this album is different and inventive lifting some of the tracks from pub rock chug to indie masterpieces,this is mixed in with some clever lyrics and playful storytelling.
I'm not quite sure how this album will sit in ten years time but it felt very NOW to me and is full of a working class passion that so often gets swept under the chav banner of apathy and mindless aggression. Buy this and enjoy!
This album is not a complete revelation and it does not signal a change for indie music. It is however filled with great and catchy songs that you will want to return to.
Album opener 'Ice Cream Sundae' is a quality track and shows exactly why they have been compared to The Happy Mondays while Single 'Either Way' shows that they are capable of writing a real quality song which is lyriccally sound without just swearing and repeating tunes.
Other highlights include 'Push the Ghosts' (another song that escapes the repeated tune and swearing that some reviewers have commented on) and 'Dont wait Up' which they manage to be just about subtle enough with for them to get away with it thanks to the brilliant soul vocals of 'that other guy who does nothing'.
A good album worth exploring if you can manage to be open mided about bands who can create indie music which stretches beyond Oasis.
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