A weekly roundup collects new albums across genres, indie recommendations, metal releases, news, track premieres, and a regularly updated playlist. Cut Worms returns with "Evil Twin," produced by Jeff Tweedy and recorded at the Loft Studio in Chicago; the track was tracked largely live with vocals, guitars, and Glenn Kotche on drums, and it balances city and suburban elements while exploring public lives and secret selves. Purity Ring previewed "imanocean" from their upcoming self-titled album, describing the song as a foggy, oceanic current that underwent several iterations to capture a specific hazy, emotional space evocative of past songs and sunsets.
I think [the song] is equal parts city and suburban, and has something to do with public lives and secret selves," says Cut Worms' Max Clarke. "I recorded a full version of it at home and then re-did it at the Loft with Jeff [Tweedy] who encouraged me to cut out some verses, which was a good thing because I can tend to over-write sometimes. The main parts of the track were all done live with me singing and playing guitar, Jeff on guitar and Glenn Kotche on drums. I think it has a really good loose yet tight feel... pairs of opposites seeming to be a theme here.
We had a really nice time playing songs on the beach and getting washed away," mj says. "This song is a sweet current of fog drifting over the ocean, a wave away from all the things we've made, yet still thoroughly us. There is a place in us we wanted this song to fill and it took a few iterations before it fell to this one, but the satisfaction we get from it is reminiscent of the hazy memory of songs from our past. Off all the places we've seen the sun set, of all the times we felt ourselves getting carried away in the rush. A foggy dream of emotion that surrounds us in a gentle chaos of moving
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