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It’s a lesser-known secret that Twinemen is a New Hampshire band. Really, it’s so; yes, Billy Conway and Dana Colley may be better known for their time in Boston’s legendary Morphine, but drummer Conway and singer Laurie Sargent call Hopkinton, New Hampshire, home. Next time you’re in Concord, keep an eye out for them.
‘Twinetime’ is the band’s third album, mixed by Paul Kolderie and produced at Hi-N-Dry, and it has, maybe, a little of the quieter life in it.
Colley’s saxophone weaves the same dark magics that fans are used to, while Sargent’s dreaming voice floats across it, but unlike the frustrated politics of the band’s previous album, ‘Sideshow,’ ‘Twinetime’ spends more time on summer nights and the stories of people, such as in the songs “Calamity J.” and “The End of my Dreams.”
Twinemen were brought together after the death of their friend and bandmate from Morphine, Mark Sandman, leaving Dana and Billy without the band they had been a part of for ten years.
“The beacon for creating these songs was to make music that couldn’t be easily categorized,” Conway points out on their website. “I like the open-endedness of this group. We left the door open for any direction we wanted to take.”
“It’s probably the most unstructured music I’ve ever played,” says Sargent.
A New Hampshire show is a rare occurrence for Twinemen, so don’t miss them at the Music Hall at 7pm on October 25.
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