While out on our Ton Up Tour a fan approached me with a heavy observation and question about the song ‘The One.’ He said, “George, I am confused by the lyrics in your songs on Confess, particularly on the song ‘The One,’ you seem torn between honoring some one who cares about you and someone you can’t have, the whole record seems like this, don’t you think it’s confusing? I mean, you are telling someone there is something wrong with them but you’ll go with them anyway?”To which I replied, “Yes its very f****** confusing isn’t it?” As I thought about it weeks after and while making this video, I realized again what Confess meant for me. It was a chance to be totally honest and say that nothing is perfect; but faith in someone who gives themselves to you is very real and very beautiful. That all this bizarre love we have has to go someplace, and it can be as simple as pushing it against a person who is constant.I thought about how a lot of my songs often get lumped into being just about a girl, (which may be so in this song) but what about the other constants in my life? My old friends in New York and my new friends in LA, I thought, they are “the ones” as well.  The ones who are always ready to jump back in where we left off when I go on these long tours and disappear from the face of the earth.I turn up on their doorsteps, we ride motorcycles, act a fool, drink too much, dance all night , watch movies on my couch.. All without question, like not a beat missed. I throw my love to them. I hope you do the same with the people you find close.
Happy Holidays from Twin Shadow to you and yours

enjoy

‘Confess’ is out now via 4AD/Rhytmethod

Yours Truly filmed this stripped-down version of ‘Run My Heart’ in George’s backyard.

Twin Shadow Confess is out now via 4AD/Rhythmethod

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Twin Shadow, the psueudonym of George Lewis Jr., release latest album, Confess, through 4AD this week. Self-produced and with mixing duties handled by Michael H. Brauer (Bob Dylan, Paul McCartney), the follow-up to 2010′s Forget finds Lewis Jr. doing what he does best; remembering and reinventing, fashioning a soundtrack which sounds refreshingly and distinctly modern.

Inspired by a motorcycle accident George was involved in a few years ago, Confess is suitably dramatic and exhilirating. Referencing the 80s New Wave close to its creator’s heart and with a cinematic ambition, the album is personalised by a lyrical concern that reveals Lewis Jr. to be the Don Juan with a conscience; louche, charming and melancholic in equal measure.

Shaping up to be one of the albums of the year, here is what people have been saying…

Album of the Month – The Skinny (5/5)
“Terrific.” – The Observer
“What a find.” – The Scotsman (4/5)
“Lewis Jr.‚s return is triumphant.” – The Fly (4/5)
“Pop music where the bad guy wins.” – Pitchfork (8.6 – Best New Music)
“Its thrills and spills are irresistable.” – Drowned in Sound (9/10)
“A brilliant selection of songs about spilling your romantic beans.” – Time Out (4/5)
“These tunes blaze brilliantly and briefly, just like a brat pack love story.” – Metro (4/5)

You can watch his latest video for ‘Patient’ below

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‘Patient’ is directed by Keith Musil, it provides the second installment to the story written by George Lewis Jr (aka Twin Shadow) started by ‘Five Seconds’.

NEW RELEASE

‘Five Seconds’ is off the forthcoming album Confess out July via 4AD / Rhythmethod.

Featuring tracks from:

Atlas Sound

St. VIncent

tUnE-YaRdS

Iron and Wine

Zomby

Gang Gang Dance

Joker

Twin Shadow

The Big Pink

Ariel Pink’s Haunted Graffiti

Twin Shadow recently made their TV debut on Jimmy Fallon.

They ripped through an impressive performance of  Castles In The Snow all while maintaining their brilliant hairdos.
Watch! 

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Twin Shadow Forget is out now through 4AD/Rhythmethod