Albums
Wild Onion
2015
Genre: Alternative
Release Date: 2015
By Jayson Greene
Reviewed August 6, 2014
Chicago rockers Twin Peaks' first album ran a compact twenty minutes and was refreshing and ephemeral. Their new one is twice the length, offering two distinct versions of themselves—one of which sounds really good, and the other just okay.
The Chicago rock band Twin Peaks spend half their time as a chugging power chord factory and half as a winsome power-pop band. Their first album, Sunken, which ran a compact twenty minutes and was as refreshing and ephemeral as a popped Schlitz can, contained hints of both. Their second, , is more than twice the length, in which they seem to be offering two distinct versions of themselves: in one, they're good-times party rockers, and in the other they're heartbroken sweethearts. You could cull down to make one nine-song version of either album, and one would be just okay and one would be really good.