According to Urban Dictionary, “Twee” means “buttocks or ass.” Isn’t that cute? (note I am not questioning Urban Dictionary’s validity- there is a period in my life where I was very dependent on Urban Dictionary to understand anything that came out of my friends’ mouths)  Add an “s” to the end of that, and the result is a lovely little upbeat band from NYC.  For those of you who are challenged by addition or the alphabet, that would be Twees.

Music reviews generally bore me, so I’ll do my best not to bore you (or, more selfishly, myself).  When I first heard them I thought the vocalist sounds like if Julian Casablancas (that guy from the strokes) swallowed some extra pop rocks and chewed some extra bubble gum. Which led to hey remember when I used to sing a long to the Strokes “Last Night” incessantly during the tail end of high school, then I started college, and I met this kid named Allen Strickland Williams, who gave me a cd named “mao mix” that had that Strokes CD with “Reptilla.” My thoughts subsequently danced to traveling to Burma and seeing little lizards on the walls of  the bungalow (a normal sight there), which are literally called like “house lizards.” The heat and warmth there is like the sweltering summer days in the Fall Creek Gorge in Ithaca, NY, and one time we sat there with the portable record player playing Beirut “Elephant Gun,” a frat boy asked us what we were listening to, we said “Beirut,” and he said “what like the game?”

So that’s what the Twees are like.  Funny sunny days in gorges.

The Twees released two new songs today: Unfair Affair and Hepburn Shades (yes you can download them for free through those links).  Furthermore, the entire EP is yours (for free too!) if you sign up for their mailing list here.

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