"Another night / Wrapped in sheets / And the heat of holding you..."
The bloodlet intimacies and sonic ferality of "Avoidance" by twins, the lowercase moniker of South East London based musician, tattooist and visual artist Loz KeyStone, is rich in it's sparse sonic nature and emotional pull. The textured acoustic guitar, floating bass, falling lead guitar harmonics / tones and drones of other sounds against KeyStone's vocal countenance, passionate and forlorn, strike me in a wide spatial way, a 360 way, casting imagery like a fully formed indie film. Besides KeyStones evocative vocal qualities, the way he taps into the emotional patina on his words, very poetic words is everything and those lyrics, that dip into both curious expressions and total in your face declarations is wonderful.
An aspect of the lyrical poetry is it's ability to make you want to read in between the lines. For example, the poetic personification and metaphor in the passage "The light sings on you / And I'm not here / I'm the air that it sings through" is curiously beautiful as it shines like some mystery in the night sky, one of those lines that makes your brain twitch but in a good way. These kinds of lyrical differences make me smile as well.
These LINER NOTES make me smile too:
["Written and recorded in a caravan in the West Country, UK. It's the opening track off the full album called Caravan that I released 3 months ago"]
Lyrics:
Wrapped in sheets
And the heat of holding you
Dream
So quiet
The light sings on you
And I'm not here
I'm the air that it sings through
Then suddenly, there's a closing
And it takes me
Like a second will in the room
I'll be there soon
And I don't know how to love you
And I don't know how to love you
I'm not near myself - untrue
And what it means to be real, leaves
Coz suddenly there's a closing
And it take me
Something dies before it blooms
A crypt of feelings that I need to move
Cryptic feelings for you
In the end, "Avoidance", feels like the beginning of an impactful discovery.
LINER NOTES (excerpted / bracketed):
[Loz has been a familiar face on the London music and tattoo scenes for years. He is a long standing member of the live outfit of future-facing-art-synth-crooners Rocheman and has released solo, instrumental albums under his own name. With drummer Harry Pope, he co-created ‘SURRENDER’ - an improvised duet for amplified tattoo machine and drums which was debuted at Vortex Jazz Club in September 2023.
2024 saw the opening of his first solo exhibition ‘Nameless Drawings From Nothing’ at Deptford’s Open 205 Gallery. The same year also gave birth to the instrumental album ‘Craobh Haven’ - the dreamlike product of a week’s residency in a cabin in the Scottish village of the same name with Glaswegian trumpeter Christos Stylianides. London label SWIMS picked the album up and it was released on vinyl with launch parties at London’s Servant Jazz Quarters and Glasgow’s Laylow.]
-Robb Donker Curtius
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THE FACTS AS WE KNOW THEM
https://soundcloud.com/twinstwinstwinstwins
https://www.instagram.com/twinstwinstwinstwinstwins
https://twins4.bandcamp.com/
twins is the moniker for the songs of South East London based musician, tattooist and visual artist Loz KeyStone.
Loz has been a familiar face on the London music and tattoo scenes for years. He is a long standing member of the live outfit of future-facing-art-synth-crooners Rocheman and has released solo, instrumental albums under his own name. With drummer Harry Pope, he co-created ‘SURRENDER’ - an improvised duet for amplified tattoo machine and drums which was debuted at Vortex Jazz Club in September 2023.
2024 saw the opening of his first solo exhibition ‘Nameless Drawings From Nothing’ at Deptford’s Open 205 Gallery. The same year also gave birth to the instrumental album ‘Craobh Haven’ - the dreamlike product of a week’s residency in a cabin in the Scottish village of the same name with Glaswegian trumpeter Christos Stylianides. London label SWIMS picked the album up and it was released on vinyl with launch parties at London’s Servant Jazz Quarters and Glasgow’s Laylow.
2025 sees him on residency in a caravan outside of Bristol where he’s writing and recording ‘Caravan’, the debut twins EP.
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