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Twin Shadow is the nom de
plume of Dominican-born George Lewis Jr. The troubled son of a hairdresser
and a
“teacher who lived many lives” (semi-professional football,
massage
therapy, film maker), his formative years
were spent in suburban Florida.
It was there that George
made he first forays into music,
experimenting with sound from the age
of 14. He’s not looked back since.
Escaping the palm
trees and still heat of the Sunshine
State,
George travelled
north to New York where he began writing debut album
Forget over a series of months in
his Brooklyn apartment. Inevitably,
his nomadic impulses meant that
the sound of Twin Shadow wasn’t to remain
tied to the Big Apple. Drawing
inspiration from extended trips abroad to
Copenhagen
and Berlin,
and a
distinctly European sensibility that
takes in Can,
Bowie and a classic pop
melodicism, Twin Shadow has proven broad
in scope and enterprise.
As such, Forget offers a panoramic
view of a musical landscape that
spans decades.
Veering from the full-throttle power ballad ‘Slow’ to the shimmering Niles Rodgers-tinged
disco of ‘At My Heels’ and the new wave synthesized
breaks of ‘Castles
In the Snow’, Forget speaks of a carnivorous
musical
mind not afraid
to venture down unknown paths.
It was venturing down these paths that
led Twin Shadow to the attention of Grizzly Bear’s
Chris Taylor
in 2009. Impressed by the ambition
of the music, Taylor not only lent his skills to the
project by co-producing the record, but also
offered to release Forget in the US on his newly
established label,
Terrible Records. Soon after, Twin
Shadow signed
to 4AD for the rest of the world, a
deal George
sees as allowing
him to “share his music through his dream
label”.
