Twin Foxes Delivers a Sonic Journey with Green It’s All Around You

An ambient space intro works as a slow reveal to the drum-pounding, relentless movement of the new Twin Foxes album Green, It’s All Around You. Crunchy guitar tones layer and layer with somewhat hypnotic incantations that float above the wall of sound. Repeated lines and phrases jump out in slightly reverbed, crystal clarity, offering distinct, succinct thoughts over the rumble and torrent below.

This description is a fitting one for the Twin Foxes' style. The trio, made up of Jared Mann (guitars, vocals, piano, words), Carlos Molina (drums, percussion), and Dan Tachon (bass), nod to '90s melodic noise makers like The Smashing Pumpkins and Built to Spill. With sensibilities and vocals tied to the 2000s emo and hardcore scene, Twin Foxes plays lightly on nostalgic sounds and feelings in the quest to establish a sound that is uniquely theirs: aggressive, pensive, progressive.

Balance and harmony come to mind with Twin Foxes. Like the yin and yang, there are always opposing elements working together in their music to make the whole. Take a song like “Good”—a light-hearted “oo-ing” chorus is counterbalanced with layer upon layer of guitars in varying levels of distortion. Breaks of clean guitar riffs are bookended by noise, all working to provide a mattress on which to lay cleanly delivered vocals, where every word is treated as one worth hearing. Noise and clarity are always bedfellows on this album.

Along with balance comes movement. Twin Foxes’ songs don’t rely on established song structures. They are fluid, ever-transforming entities that constantly lead to movements building on each other, offering new vistas, tones, and vocal passages. The songs are not content to be predictable, but they are content to lead you somewhere unexpected. You might hear a buildup giving way to something, but Twin Foxes have a unique way of offering melodic riffs and instrumental breaks that remain elusive, unexpected, and interesting. You will be caught off guard—but trust them, they know where things will end up.

Finally, with movement comes cohesiveness. The album plays like an uninterrupted string of movements. While each song has its own geographic makeup of peaks and valleys, the album feels like an atlas—an ever-changing landscape that moves from location to location on one continuous trip without stops. Perhaps somewhere around minute 4 of “The House We Built,” you look around and realize the zen of it all: a mindful engulfing of sound and movement that creates a continuous journey, a ride with no stopping points.

The album was recorded almost entirely live to capture more of a real performance. Jared Mann engineered and mixed the record at their studio, Distorted Forest. The record was mastered by Justin Pizzoferrato (known for his work with Dinosaur Jr., Sonic Youth, and Parquet Courts). All this combined created a pretty big analog sound! Twin Foxes is teaming up with a newer Boston label, Best Brother Records, to do a limited vinyl run in the coming months.

You can find Twin Foxes’ music online at: https://twinfoxes.bandcamp.com/album/green-its-all-around-you