As members of prolific Irish bands in the last few years, The Cast Of Cheers and Adebisi Shank, Conor Adams and Lar Kaye still found time recently to get involved or start other projects. Adams with Dave Green as Charmers, a muscular rock project which played their last gig for quite a while in Granby Park over the weekend at Minimum Maximum and Kaye, as both a solo artist and as a member of Sargent House-signed synth-rock heft-merchants No Spill Blood.
The pair obviously have other avenues they want to explore and the outcome is tvvins – a new band which is primarily characterised by synthetic or treated vocals – vocoder, talkbox and Autotune-style effects and production that features the energetic pace of ’80s electro pop and the spirit of anthemic rock of that same era.
‘Two Worlds’ is the band’s first song they’re letting out onto the world ahead of their debut live gig at Hard Working Class Heroes (midnight at Bad Bobs on Saturday October 5th). The song features a kinship with the palette of Justin Vernon when he’s singing on Kanye’s tracks, tropical-leaning guitar pop arrangements, synth stabs and thoroughly live band drums. It’s the B-side of another song coming called ‘You Better’.
Track Produced by Rob Kirwan, Conor Adams & Lar Kaye.
Mixed by Rob Kirwan.
Mastered by Robin Schmidt at 24-96 Mastering, Germany.
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Wow \’o’/
Is that midnight for Friday tickets or Saturday tickets? I can’t see them on the listing for either.
Track is solid though.
Midnight Saturday. Scroll all the way down in the schedule which I can’t link to directly sadly.
Ah jesus not another double VV named band. Thats not even hip its yesteryear! Chrishhht.
Sounds like the leftover bits from Lars e.p, which sounded like the leftover bits from the second shank album. But mixed with cabbage and Muse. Pure shite scene bullshit. I’m off to listen to the ridge racer four soundtrack.
Love it class
Lar’s in one pretty good band and one great band, this is neither. This smacks of hip ass bullshit.
Shite. But at least its not more of the same unoriginal insufferable Cast of Cheers hipster robot rock bollox.