Twisted Teens Hit the Big Time

Nina Corcoran’s Pitchfork profile is the definitive guide to Twisted Teens, so far. The Holy Cross Tigers is out on 6 November, and they’re already recording the next one.

Over two days she covers train-hopping, fiddles (everyone plays one except the drummer, their thirteenth) and a guinea pig. Bassist Sonya Badigian sums them up best: “Everything is deeply funny, but it’s not exactly a joke.”

Hollywell says the Florida Water Blues opener lifts a line from the rapper Lazer Dim 700, and nobody has caught it. My review said the lines come faster than you can catch them. Evidently.