{"id":23387,"date":"2023-10-30T05:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-10-30T05:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/?p=23387"},"modified":"2023-10-24T08:03:20","modified_gmt":"2023-10-24T08:03:20","slug":"twin-temple-god-is-dead-pentagrammaton-recs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/?p=23387","title":{"rendered":"Twin Temple – ‘God Is Dead’ (Pentagrammaton Recs)"},"content":{"rendered":"
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LA doo-wop duo Twin Temple are a bit of an anomaly. Married couple Alexandra & Zachary James are practising satanists who incorporate their beliefs with their love of 50\u2019s and 60\u2019s rock n’ roll. They dress like extras from Carry On Screaming and sound like a Phil Spector produced band lost in time. Their lyrical themes of sex, Satan and witchcraft have got them on the wrong side of the fundamentalist Christians and somehow, they have found a home amongst the metal masses, touring with the likes of Ghost, Behemoth and Glenn Danzig.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Their debut album \u2018Twin Temple (Bring You Their Signature Sound\u2026Satanic Doo-Wop)\u2019 was recorded live and in mono over a day and a half in 2019, to get the most authentic sound and it’s a scream from start to finish.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Although the live and rarities opus \u2018Stripped From The Crypt\u2019 satiated the coven of Twin Temple a couple of years back, a follow up album has been long overdue. Twin Temple unleashed their blasphemous, sophomore long player \u2018God is Dead\u2019 on Friday 13th October and it carries on where the debut left us 4 years ago.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Opener \u2018Burn Your Bible\u2019 has all the Twin Temple kitsch 60\u2019s doo-wop trademarks you could ask for. From the sampled rain and ringing church bells to the mid-paced Spector drums, twangy guitars, xylophone and those glorious vocals, you will certainly feel like you\u2019re doing the time warp again. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Of course, this would all be futile if the songs weren\u2019t up to scratch, but Twin Temple have that under their control.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The songs are well (witch)crafted. The previously released singles \u2018Let\u2019s Have A Satanic Orgy\u2019 and \u2018Be A Slut\u2019 are testament to that and are sure to upset the Christians yet again. The former is a Mariachi styled celebration, the latter a Motown romp of sexual empowerment. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2018Two Sinners\u2019 is one of the most authentic retro doo-wop songs they have released so far. Their take on 60\u2019s girl groups has been captured so magnificently well you would swear it\u2019s a scratchy old 45 from way back when. Those backing vocals, handclaps and just the overall production is timeless. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Then \u2018Black Magick\u2019 goes and does it again with lead vocals that will stop you in your tracks and a melody you know you know, but can\u2019t quite place. It all sounds so sweet and innocent until you study the lyrics and realise it\u2019ll never get playlisted on radio.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Even the closing title track is a well-designed coda that sounds like a Dusty Springfield style finale to a satanic, cinematic experience. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Twin Temple could easily come across as gimmicky, but the proof is in the pudding so to speak. And in just 27 minutes, over the course of 8 songs, the satanic duo delivers a bit of a retro-styled masterpiece.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

They have more in common with the Ronnettes or the Shangri-La\u2019s than the bands they are touring with, and that association is probably hurting their commercial appeal.\u00a0But there is so much potential crossover with Twin Temple, and \u2018God Is Dead\u2019 deserves to be an album that rises above cult status.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Author: Ben Hughes<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

LA doo-wop duo Twin Temple are a bit of an anomaly. Married couple Alexandra & Zachary James are practising satanists who incorporate their beliefs with their love of 50\u2019s and 60\u2019s rock n’ roll. They dress like extras from Carry On Screaming and sound like a Phil Spector produced band lost in time. Their lyrical […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":23388,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[8348],"class_list":["post-23387","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-review","tag-twin-temple"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23387","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=23387"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23387\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23389,"href":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23387\/revisions\/23389"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/23388"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23387"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23387"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23387"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}