Concert Review: Twin XL Are Your Friends At Mercury Lounge
Oh…..yea! TWIN XL totally hit that pop-rock market that believe a good pop song can be as riotous and anthemic as a rock n’ roll track. They are like Colony House or Coin hung out with Portugal The Man. Die-hard rockers think “pop” is like a bubblegum factory of high-energy and no rawness. Meanwhile, pure-poppers see rock as embittered noise. Yet, Twin XL showed that these uniting forces create electro.
Yup, ELECTRO! Tracks like, “Good,” “Friends,” “Sunglasses,” and even a cover of Smash Mouth’s “All-Star” showed that the glue between any fusing genre is electricity, and the feeling that every melody is fuzzed and heightened by two worlds. With a sign lit up that said, “We Are Your Friends,” and “We Are Twin XL,” they, IMMEDIATELY, set up that they were one with their crowd in feeling music saved them, and, through their performance, revealed an obvious, forgotten fact: we like our friends because their fun. If you are not having laughs and great times with your buddies then change your social scene, which would, definitely, be the recommendation of lead singer Cameron Walker-Wright
Twin XL is, currently, on their first headliner tour, and they were incredible. They carried themselves as if they have been doing this all their life or, at least, knew they would, especially lead singer Cameron. He is all about feeding off the energy of audience like a cool “energy vampire.” (Ignore We Are The Shadows as a reference (lol!) Yet, he sees his audience like an IV, of which if he has to go sing his lungs out in the middle of the crowd or push his body down to the floor to hype up the emotion of a note …… HE WILL! Why? Because that is what a friend would do if they wanted you to have the time of your life, and TWIN XL see their songs like your friends: standing with you in the biggest memories of your life.
Vocally, Cameron feels emotively steady. Fuming his notes as if to reveal they are motioned by breathe; they very thing you might waste but he has, somehow, made vital. Sure, that might feel like an arrogant statement, but there is a splash of ego/ invincibility and a building rebellion within the guys that, again, remind of friendship. I never felt more alive and more like tearing down norms then when I found my “people” or my friends and Twin XL capture that. For More Information On Twin XL Click Here.
