Hammer To The Hornets Nest,
TwofoldWell here’s a conundrum. It must have been two years ago that I saw Twofold, but since then something rather similar to the beauty of the caterpillar- chrysalis – butterfly equation has gone on. Twofold are now rather fantastic. In fact they are jaw dropping.
The three tacks here sound like revolution, it’s almost a warning, Twofold have figured out how to make solid gold out of guitars, bass and drums, so don’t even try to challenge them. And it all seems so damn easy, dropping in keyboards that Reggie would be proud of, skewed rhythms and complex song structures, the odd saxophone line courtesy of one Jake Sims-Felding and an ear for melody so compelling you can’t help but dance. I’m gobsmacked.
“Hammer to the Hornet’s Nest” swerves and slams like a… (I’m sorry) bunch of hornets whose nest you just hit with a hammer I suppose. “The words stabbed and back spring to mind” starts off with a more recognisable Twofold sound, kind of like the split they did with Lucky Thirteen but all of a sudden it slows down and out lumbers a big fat bastard of a chorus grinning like a maniac and they don’t stop there, screaming off into an is it/isn’t it “mock” metal outro. The last track mixes everything up, the ear drum blistering sneer that Twofold can manhandle so well sits next to a central section that The Get up Kids would be proud of. Confusing? Yes. But then the best things always are.
There’s so much that’s original here its hard to pick it apart. For your money you get anthemic barrel-chested shout alongs, almost Ash (yes Ash)-esque guitar noodling, three lead singers hurling the contents of their lungs at you and a Biffy Clyro-like passion for cramming about fourteen different ideas into one song – usually painting every end of the hardcore spectrum with all the bits you never even thought existed in the middle. And it works. So well in fact that I’d be surprised if these boys don’t make something rather larger out of themselves. Twofold are untouchable.
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Steve
