Sydney’s Twin Fires are set to release their debut EP This Time I’m Fine on August 19th.

Having already captivated audiences through support slots with The Charlatans and Dune Rats, Twin Fires are getting ready to unleash their bluesy rock to a wide audience.

Produced by Tony Buchen (The Preatures, Tim Finn), the EP is an adrenaline-fuelled rockfest that manages to fully encapsulate the group’s huge sound, and they’ve given us a rundown on each of the tracks.

Boss

Our guitarist Jake started this one off just running a sweet A chord with heaps of 80s sounding gated reverb. I think we all just wanted a full ham rock and roll song, and we knew this was gonna be it. The intro came about by Tony Buchan getting out some of his more bizarre studio goodies and we daisy chained about 12 pedals together to make that sound.

As for the lyrics, we were drunk on red wine at Ed’s and were getting sick of writing about chicks so we decided to talk about the wingnut gumboot gronk who was in charge of the country at the time. We would never consider ourselves a political band but the lyrics were just too easy to write considering the subject. Plus, it’s also one of the funnest songs to sing and play live.

Two Hands

This song is about not being able to make up your mind and not having the guts to call it quits. Sometimes it’s just so easy to keep going back to something that feels so comfortable. The song came together using a straight drum loop on Garage Band at about half the tempo it is on the record, and building the layers over that into the wall of sound it is now.

It was the second last track we recorded with Tony Buchen. We came into the control room for a listen after a long day, he hit play, we all looked at each other and felt so stoked to finally put down a track we are so proud of. It’s certainly a favourite for us not that we can choose favourites…

Everything

When we did our first U.S. tour in 2013 (under a different name) we were playing shows almost every night. When we were in Austin we would book a rehearsal room during the day and just write, write, write.

‘Everything’ was the first song we wrote for this record. The opening guitar line was something Ed started playing and we all just joined in. It’s virtually the exact same arrangement as we wrote back in 2013. Being in the U.S. was the first time we spent every single day together for 6 weeks and it gave us all a taste of the touring lifestyle and that is exactly what the song is about.

Be Just Fine

They say a good song either takes 5 minutes or 5 months to write. While a couple songs on this record took 5 minutes, ‘Be Just Fine’ certainly didn’t and just like writing the song, this one is hard to write about, but we all knew it was a song we had to persist with.

The lyrics were written during pre-production and it’s that old tale about being with someone you shouldn’t be with. A special shout-out goes to Michel Rose who Tony Buchen had brought in for a session on this track and ‘Your Face’. We knew we had to have some pedal steel on the track but before we could give him any directions he just started playing exactly what was in our heads and then some. It completely took the track to a new place.

Let Me Be Your Man

This is one of the songs that took us 5 minutes to write. In the first run through it was pretty much complete. The buzz after writing this was something we hadn’t had from songwriting before and we hope you can hear it in the song.

We recorded the back up vocals and claps in the garage of Rancom Studios, so most if the reverb on those parts is el natural. It’s pretty straightforward – boy meets girl, boy wants girl to be his. The end.

Your Face

If we’re gonna get deep, this is where it’ll happen, but you’ll be stoked to know it’s not about a chick. The song is about some people very close and some very rough experiences that were had that will scar forever. Writing the song was a release for so many reasons and since recording and listening back, it’s really helped with the healing process.

We recorded this track almost completely live, all in the same room with the lights off, we reckon that exact vibes comes through on the recording.

Twin Fires Tour Dates

Sydney – September 22nd @ Brighton Up Bar – Tickets

Melbourne – October 7th @ PennyBlack – Free

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