ARTiST: The Twang
TiTLE: Love It When I Feel Like This
LABEL: B-Unique/Polydor
GENRE: Indie
TiME: 63:57 min
SiZE: 96,3 MB
BiTRATE: VBRkbps
RiP DATE: Jun-01-2007
RELEASE DATE: Jun-04-2007
WEBSiTE: n/a
Track List:
CD1
01. Ice Cream Sundae 03:48
02. Wide Awake 04:49
03. The Neighbour 03:16
04. Either Way 04:04
05. Push The Ghosts 04:13
06. Reap What You Sow 04:20
07. Loosely Dancing 03:12
08. Two Lovers 03:30
09. Don't Wait Up 03:17
10. Got Me Sussed 03:54
11. Cloudy Room 05:06
CD2
01. Wide Awake (Acoustic Version) 04:07
02. Cloudy Room (Napster Session) 03:56
03. Either Way 03:34
(Streets Remix Feat. Professor Green)
04. Ice Cream Sundae (Live At Doncaster Dome) 03:46
05. Cloudy Room (Live At Doncaster Dome) 05:05
Release Notes:
The Twang release what can only be described as
their hugely anticipated debut album, 'Love It When
I Feel Like This'. Recorded with long term producer
Gavin Monahan at his Magic Garden Studios in
Wolverhampton and mixed by Mark æSpikeÆ Stent at
Olympic Studios, 'Love It When I Feel Like This'
follows their debut single, 'Wide Awake' which
crashed into the UK charts at number 15.
As with all "overnight successes" The Twang are not
the product of six months work. When guitarist Stu
Hartland became the last to join two years ago, the
band had already put in three years of demoing,
gigging, chasing Noel Gallagher across the
Glastonbury fields to try and give him a demo. It is
testament to their belief in themselves that they
got this far.
The debut album brings together the best of their
work in those two years, from the full on dance
inflected grooves of 'Ice Cream Sundae' and 'Loosely
Dancing' to the confessionals of 'Wide Awake' and
'Got Me Sussed', Phil EtheridgeÆs knack of defining
universal experiences with humour and insight to the
fore throughout. Fusing their well documented love
of guitar music from Oasis through to the current
time with their equal love of dance music from an
adolescence spent clubbing, the album draws on a
catalogue of genres over its eleven tracks.
In the six months since their debut London gig, much
has been written about The Twang. They are lads,
they are "wild", they are the new spirit of rock ænÆ
roll. All of which have some truth but to really
understand The Twang listen to 'Don't Wait Up' and
then 'Got Me Sussed' or 'The Neighbour' and 'Either
Way'. These songs are not caricatures of laddish
life but documents of the excess and regret, the
highs and lows of normal life. When you've "spent
the shopping money" as "a couple turned into ten"
('Don't Wait Up'), then it's inevitable that the
hammer will fall and you admit that, "I did it to
myself so I shouldn't complain" ('Got Me Sussed').
The Twang are a gang but they're a hardworking gang,
they're from the normal life lived in towns and
cities across the country but they want more and
they are getting it. Most importantly, they've
achieved their initial goal; to make this record and
document the world as they see it, the world as
they, and their friends (who are a huge part of this
story and this album), live it. They are the most
talked about band of this year but they are also one
of the brightest hopes to emerge from the UK in
years. As they say themselves on album (and live set
closer) 'Cloudy Room', "there's no going back from
here".