★★★★★
BY Jon Dolan | August 21, 2014 These Chicago garage-pop kids weren't even born when Twin Peaks went off the air, but their love of ancient cultures goes back even further. On their second record, the spunky quartet pull offExile-era Stones strut and Velvet Underground guitar poesy with sophistication that's beyond their years, and a sense of humor, too. On "Making Breakfast," they play at being Lil' Jaggers, "sitting in the back of a limousine/Just going to a show...
- www.rollingstone.com
2014-08-22
★★★★★
Growing up can be a difficult proposition. At a certain point, we are expected to leave behind our juvenile leanings and predilections in favor of more adult-oriented fair. Easier for some than others, the maturation process can provide fairly interesting evolutionary results as we find ourselves trapped between who we were and who we want to be, developing individual personalities cobbled together from a host of external influences...
- www.popmatters.com
2014-08-08
★★★★★
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, Wild Onion, 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...
- pitchfork.com
2014-08-06
★★★★★
"Thought it sounded cool." There--we got the band name out of the way. Fair enough. Nope, you'll find no backwards-voiced, creepily dancing little people here. Unless that describes you. In which case high-five, shimmy in here and--actually, don't; that's creepy. Instead let's let loose with some unrepentant rockism, hooks galore, chicken-walking Jagger-swagger, and power-pop jangle from these garage-y Chicagoans...
- www.undertheradarmag.com
2014-08-05
★★★★★
For those who not only accepted the fact that there was a band who thought it wasn't a totally embarrassing idea to call themselves Twin Peaks, but actually took the time to listen to a band called Twin Peaks (in all fairness, it could be worse), the reward was a surprisingly enjoyable mini-LP from the Chicago feel-good garage rockers. Their 2013 debut Sunken was a shaggy, vaguely rootsy effort that drew warranted comparisons to their Windy City peers the Smith Westerns...
- www.wonderingsound.com
2014-08-05
★★★★★
Before the 2013 release of Twin Peaks' debut album Sunken , three of its four members dropped out of their first semester of college to return home to Chicago and reform the band. Having amassed a sizable local following with their raucous live shows and doing some flirting with national press coverage, the youngsters' decision, while risk-filled, had ample upside. Following successful stints at SXSW, a U.S...
- www.avclub.com
2014-08-05
★★★★★
To be fair, they warned you. In a January interview with NME, Twin Peaks revealed that they were going big on their second album, Wild Onion. This was a good six or seven months before the album's release date, but the band wasn't shy about name-dropping some pretty powerful reference points. "It's all over the place," the band teased about the new record. "It'll have some balls-to-the-wall Stones shit, some Beatles-esque arrangements and production, some Beach Boys vibes, some Jay Rea bangers ...
- consequenceofsound.net
2014-08-06
★★★★★
Here's another solid crew from a rumbling Chicago cracked-pop demi-scene (Space Raft, Nones, Heavy Times) that feels like the usually weirder, record-collecting, $3.50 beer-fed, Midwest answer to the sunnier trash-pop sounds going down in Oakland and L.A. This young quartet has no doubt snuck through the back door of many of those bands' gigs, getting a pat on the head, kiddo, while, unbeknownst, conjuring up something wholly bigger...
- www.cmj.com
2014-08-06
★★★★★
This young Chicago band follows up their promising 2013 debut album Sunken with another strong full-length blending raw garage-rock and sunny psych-pop with bouncy, hook-filled power pop. 8/1/2014
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- kexp.org
2014-08-02
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