Twin Sister - In Heaven
Going as far down as 30 albums this year, a lot of the lower entries are ones with one really outstanding song and a lot of other enjoyable but lesser songs. Twin Sister's In Heaven fits that pattern but is unusual in how little resemblance the one stand-out has to the rest of the album. The massively fun "Gene Ciampi" is a two minute blast of twanging guitars, clomping beats and "ha-ha!" backing vocals which reminds me most of the energetically updated retro pop of The Coral, though Andrea Estella's softer vocals are a long way from theirs.
Only the guitar and organ driven drama of "Spain" is remotely similar in sound. Over much of the rest of the short album they instead work on a much calmer and more electronic basis. Stuff like "Space Babe" and "Kimmi in a Rice Field" sets up synth-pop beats but use them as the backdrop to drifting songs of a quiet beauty. They actually come very close to a second stand out with "Stop", thanks to its amazing whooshing bass sounds as much as the songwriting, but the rest of the album is so easygoing and likeable that even just one amazing moment is enough to make me want to keep returning to it.
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