TWIN FANGS
Street Sweeper
Rectangle Records
· E-town two-piece gives fans something to sink their teeth into.
Following up last year’s sexy Quelque Chose, Edmonton’s Twin Fangs finds a way to top even that stellar effort. Street Sweeper is not only great, but the album that frontman Paul Coutts was destined to make. As the original vocalist for Calgary’s Primrods and The New 1-2, Coutts has always made atonal shouting more compelling than it should be, but with the help of drummer Penny Tentiary, Twin Fangs gives him a perfect outlet for his urgent guitar acrobatics and ominous vocals.
Coutts does more with a monotonous lyrical hook and a simple drum beat than most can do with a full band and a whole song. Able to gently cradle the material or ferociously tear it to shreds (often at the same time), Twin Fangs channel the hook of the best Japanese garage rock bands, the raw power of Bleach-era Nirvana and the polished crunch of a studio-ready Guided by Voices. More impressive than those comparisons is the fact that Twin Fangs do it all while sounding like nothing other than themselves. Recorded by the soon-to-be-legendary Nic Kozub, Street Sweeper is a blistering indie-rock record of the highest order and a good case for stripping down in order to kick things up.
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