Twolips - 375 (2024)



Released only last year, the third album by Austrian vox-pop pioneers Twolips has already become something of a modern classic. Maybe even a classic classic, but of the modern kind, obviously.

375 builds seamlessly upon the selflessly egotistical ramblings of their previous efforts, 324 and 326, to deliver another bout of what can only be described as 'incurable sonic thrush'.

Bursting onto the scene in 2020, the duo cared little for convention, politeness or indeed personal hygiene, and it was perhaps this mono-mindedness that allowed them to come up with three albums in as many years. If 'as many' is actually four.

Gunter Cunt and Shabric Shamanson were no strangers to the business, of course, having previously played vertical synthesizers in Samovar and dogSodomy respectively, but the latest album takes things to a new level. Quite literally. Though not, of course, literally.

The standout track is probably 'Crab Scandal', which packs more oscillatory oomph into 3 minutes 24 seconds than most of us will ever manage in a lifetime. Metastatic poet Templeton Pelmet makes a fleeting guest appearance on 'Twine Lives' talking about what it would feel like to be a gay lime, but it's not much of a contribution.

In fact, the entire album is actually pretty bad, when one thinks about it. The trick, therefore, is not to.

Discographicalz 

  • 324 (2020)

  • 326 (2022)

  • 375 (2024)



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