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Tour Date
Sunday, February 19th we are playing The Break Contest at Ollie's Point. Our main goal is to play the main stage at The Bamboozle Festival. We need everyone to come out and support!!! RSVP to the Facebook event. Tickets can be ordered through our online store.
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Here is my question for Brooklyn band, The Twees: Why? Not ‘why?’ in the existential “why do you do the things you do” sense; ‘Why?’ as in why did you name your band that? Twee* (the classification, not the band) is one of the most argued about sub-genres of indie pop music—people either love it or hate it, there is very little middle ground. For those of you wondering “what’s twee?,” allow me to educate: twee is best described as a pair of heart-shaped cupcakes riding a tandem bicycle, or a really cute—but edgy—Pomeranian (with glasses!) playing a miniature ukulele, or Zooey Deschanel, or a Japanese girl, or Belle and Sebastian. Got it? By this definition, The Twees, in fact, are not twee at all.
So this brings me back to my original question: Why? The band’s website does not offer any clues, save for many photos of the lads in skinny jeans and a strategically placed image of empty PBR cans, which could mean any number of things, but probably means they’re hipsters. Hipsters love irony, such as the irony of calling your band The Twees but playing decidedly non-twee music. That’s not such a bad reason, if that is truly the genesis of their name. But let’s talk music.
The Tweesare gearing up for the release of their latest single, “Tempermental Health,” off a yet-untitled new EP. If the previous EP, These Girls, is telling, we should expect plenty of confident, fast-paced dance tracks, sung in the style of a manic, Transformer-era Lou Reed. The band has been compared to The Strokes, no doubt for a shared love of garage rock fuzz; but while Julian Casablancas always seemed so tired of everything, singer Jason Abrishami sounds like he’s perpetually riding the high. “Tempermental Health” retains the band’s signature temperament—a deft combination of frantic guitar riffs and what resembles an honest to God love of pop hooks. Abrishami sing-talks with an affected tic, some eccentric take on a diphthong that is maybe best described as a“hyper drawl.” And God bless him, he makes it work; the result, while not dirty enough to inspire total punk mayhem, will certainly inspire total Converse mayhem (have you ever noticed how a blurry image of Converse shoes in dance action looks a lot like Franz Marc’s Fighting Forms?)! After all, the first—and only—rule for attending a Twees show is to “dance and have fun.”
The Twees are offering a free download of “Tempermental Health” at their Bandcamp page. For more information on the band, check out their website and Facebook. If you live outside of Greater New York, catch the boys in action via YouTube, including a live performance from the 2011 Van’s Warped Tour (still confused about twee? Just think of it as “not the Van’s Warped Tour”).
So this brings me back to my original question: Why? The band’s website does not offer any clues, save for many photos of the lads in skinny jeans and a strategically placed image of empty PBR cans, which could mean any number of things, but probably means they’re hipsters. Hipsters love irony, such as the irony of calling your band The Twees but playing decidedly non-twee music. That’s not such a bad reason, if that is truly the genesis of their name. But let’s talk music.
The Tweesare gearing up for the release of their latest single, “Tempermental Health,” off a yet-untitled new EP. If the previous EP, These Girls, is telling, we should expect plenty of confident, fast-paced dance tracks, sung in the style of a manic, Transformer-era Lou Reed. The band has been compared to The Strokes, no doubt for a shared love of garage rock fuzz; but while Julian Casablancas always seemed so tired of everything, singer Jason Abrishami sounds like he’s perpetually riding the high. “Tempermental Health” retains the band’s signature temperament—a deft combination of frantic guitar riffs and what resembles an honest to God love of pop hooks. Abrishami sing-talks with an affected tic, some eccentric take on a diphthong that is maybe best described as a“hyper drawl.” And God bless him, he makes it work; the result, while not dirty enough to inspire total punk mayhem, will certainly inspire total Converse mayhem (have you ever noticed how a blurry image of Converse shoes in dance action looks a lot like Franz Marc’s Fighting Forms?)! After all, the first—and only—rule for attending a Twees show is to “dance and have fun.”
The Twees are offering a free download of “Tempermental Health” at their Bandcamp page. For more information on the band, check out their website and Facebook. If you live outside of Greater New York, catch the boys in action via YouTube, including a live performance from the 2011 Van’s Warped Tour (still confused about twee? Just think of it as “not the Van’s Warped Tour”).
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