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<\/a><\/p>\nFri 18th February – DHP presents… Twin Shadow is the nom de plume<\/em> of Dominican-born George Lewis Jr. The troubled son of a hairdresser and a \u201cteacher who lived many lives\u201d (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\u2019s not looked back since.<\/p>\n Escaping the palm trees and still heat of the Sunshine State, George travelled north to New York where he began writing debut album Forget<\/em> over a series of months in his Brooklyn apartment. Inevitably, his nomadic impulses meant that the sound of Twin Shadow wasn\u2019t 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.<\/p>\n As such, Forget<\/em> offers a panoramic view of a musical landscape that spans decades. Veering from the full-throttle power ballad \u2018Slow\u2019 to the shimmering Niles Rodgers-tinged disco of \u2018At My Heels\u2019 and the new wave synthesized breaks of \u2018Castles In the Snow\u2019, Forget<\/em> speaks of a carnivorous musical mind not afraid to venture down unknown paths.<\/p>\n It was venturing down these paths that led Twin Shadow to the attention of Grizzly Bear\u2019s 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<\/em> 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 \u201cshare his music through his dream label\u201d.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Aye, there’s a fair amount of this stuff around I guess – lovingly synth-heavy bedroom pop that’s all epic, moody and hypnagogic. The smartly-named George Lewis Jr is all these things it could be said, though much more heavy on the actual pop songs than most. Debut album ‘Forget’ mixes a high camp streak, bubbling […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[458],"tags":[476,981,1537,1819,1818],"class_list":["post-9523","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-preview","tag-bristol","tag-cooler","tag-dhp","tag-good-pop-is-nothing-to-be-scared-of","tag-twin-shadow"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jonnyjaniero.com\/thejoycollective\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9523","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jonnyjaniero.com\/thejoycollective\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jonnyjaniero.com\/thejoycollective\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jonnyjaniero.com\/thejoycollective\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jonnyjaniero.com\/thejoycollective\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9523"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jonnyjaniero.com\/thejoycollective\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9523\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jonnyjaniero.com\/thejoycollective\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9523"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jonnyjaniero.com\/thejoycollective\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9523"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jonnyjaniero.com\/thejoycollective\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9523"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nTWIN SHADOW
\n<\/strong>Doors: 7.30pm \/ \u00a36.50 adv
\n16+ Tickets from seetickets.com \/ gigantic.com \/ ticketmaster.co.uk \/ Bristolticketshop<\/p>\n