Eve's Twin Lover and the intersecting indie rock love of "Josie"

 

"going out with Tina, she's a paralegal, sometimes she talks dirty, sometimes she's prime evil..."

Jump into the jumbled precision of "Josie" by Eve's Twin Lover (the solo project / band of Chicago's Tim Flood) and you will get happily tangled up in the intersecting guitar lines, the feverish bass lines, the strident big downbeats, the lo-fi Farfisa sounds, artful drumming and Flood's busker punk vocal aesthetic. His bruised poetry is laced with wistful longing and his acerbic wit. At 7 his mom gave him pop compilations including The Beatles and ELO and at 10 he started the rudimentary writing of melodies navigating the keys on a rattling old piano from a church auction.

"I remember doing my homework with an old tape recorder next to the radio, so that I could easily hit ‘record’ when a song I was obsessed with came onto WXRT. In jr. high and high school, I was that kid pushing bands I’d discovered at his classmates, and couldn’t believe my luck in college when guys started introducing me to new stuff," Flood recalls. 

Before smart phones, the thing was mini-tape recorders and that is how Flood would record song ideas.  

"I recently listened to a song we recorded in 2015, and realized it’s about some grief I was processing, but not fully conscious of at the time. Music helps me get out of my head, where I spend too much time obsessing over my ‘shit’ - why couldn’t I make that relationship work; why did that fly out of my mouth last night. And it’s great fun - to be able to play live rock music, even just rehearsing, or to a small, half filled room. It’s hard to describe the connection to that energy."  

I am digging the Pavement type fluid proggy sounds of "Josie" one minute and then the sort of 60's folk rock The Byrds dance the next. I love the story of the song or at least the story of the seed of the song as Flood shares: 

"I was watching a Steely Dan cover band with a friend, and after they did Josie he blurts out, 'That’s who I want - Josie, with her eyes on fire.' I’ve had a hard time settling into romantic relationships, and started thinking, maybe I’m searching for a mythical woman (Josie), who doesn’t exist."

-Robb Donker Curtius

Eve's Twin Lover · Josie (Mastered)

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Chicago based Indie rock band, we've released 2 full lengths and an EP. Currently recording a new full length with producer Brian Deck (Modest Mouse, Iron and Wine, etc). We've been told our songs sound like Wilco, the Strokes, Guided by Voices, Flaming Lips.


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Eve's Twin Lover, Indie Rock, Alternative Rock, artful, divergent poetry, storytelling, guitar rock, proggy rock, "Josie", busker punk vocal aesthetic, love, longing,