Since their formation in Glasgow in 2007, through the release of mini-album Vivarium in 2009, Twin Atlantic have won a fine Scottish following with their brain-shuddering brand of stop-start post-hardcore.
That’s not enough, however: heavy hopes were placed on these young shoulders to become the next Biffy Clyro. And so the quartet went away, found a producer with genre kudos (Gil Norton, who twiddled knobs on Foo Fighters’ The Colour And The Shape) and wrote a series of songs with proper structures and catchy choruses.
The result is a band that now sounds like, well, the next Biffy Clyro – and these days that’s not a parochial dismissal, regardless of singer Sam McTrusty’s heightened accent.
Tunes had lurked around Twin Atlantic songs before – notably on Light Speed – but they’re sharpened up considerably here on the likes of Eight Days and Time For You To Stand Up. The 13 tracks are relentlessly heavy but have enough individual variety to create a debut album of substance: no X Factor cover versions likely to be plucked from this release.
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