An album lost in time. A lost treasure for the archives, Twin Headed Wolf’s album ‘Altarwise’ illustrates the first creative impulse of Branwen and Julie Kavanagh. Indeed it is the first album they ever made. All of their dreams, ideals, and ideas are contained within the ritual worlds of each song. They will share it with the world February 29th, 2024.
Following the announcement of the album and first single ‘The Black Keys’ last month, the twins share the second taster ‘The Rain’. Official video: https://youtu.be/SI_9EFQiUX0?si=bXZjZv4NghUcBS3s
Written in Branwen’s first impulse towards automatic writing while in art school, they say this song “came from experiencing the radio frequency of other people’s heartbreak through the walls of thin houses.”
The Rain – Lyrics
You locked us up in here and threw the key to chance
You knew we’d wind up here and now it’s even hands
Oh now it’s tangled word and tangled limb
This sea is dark at heart and no I cannot swim
And though you knew it would hurt you did it all the same
There is no instant cure to save you from your pain
And the rain will wash us both away
You stare at me from there your body like a grave
My mind is parched my heart is what your body craves
And in your eyes survives the flotsam from the storm
When will you realise you love is like a swarm of be
And I was not for you and you were not for me
You like my disease and I was like your queen
The thoughts pile up where my dreams lay down to die
In voice in vice you were the web and I was the fly
Twin Headed Wolf have been experimenting for many years with Time Travel. They trained in their late teens and early twenties by attempting to create music outside of the boundaries of time and bleeding into the otherworld. They played with timelessness, incorporating forgotten worlds into their music and inventing contexts of their very own, outside of timely reference points.
Being twice once and once twice as twins they seemed to have an untamed grasp on the fabric of time, and it began to behave erratically. Ergo, an album that they began in 2013 was balanced too delicately on the threshold of years and kept disappearing and reappearing with just enough time to work on it up until 2017. Once the masters were finalised it was sent to 29/2/2024, 11 years after its birth.
The album is a collection of windows into the worlds of songs. The themes surround experimental darkness lifted by ethereal blood harmonies and a host of sounds and whirring experiments that cannot be discerned or divorced from the ritual of each song. Indeed, one might think they hear anything from bones to bicycles to saws to clay pots or strange objects that have been given a musical voice, but all are effortlessly woven into the greater whole of the song.
‘Altarwise’ is about coming to terms with humanness and material reality when this experience does not match that of two beings who were raised in the heart of a dreamscape. They have learned how to hold hands with the muses and walk a strange path that takes them closer to the dream while reckoning with the darkness and managing to be being playful and light-hearted as they go. These songs are about spirit and the hot fire of its refinement.
The twins were once described as two little girls being playful about dark things. This is a place where their twin spirits gave the most of themselves. It is their favourite thing. ‘Altarwise’ is and will be the only official Twin Headed Wolf album. They hope you enjoy it.
250 limited edition ‘Altarwise’ vinyl will be available February 29th.
Pre-order on Bandcamp: https://twinheadedwolf.bandcamp.com/
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