Rebooting their eponymous debut EP, released last November, Lunar Twin offer up an album’s worth of remixes of one track, and wrapped up with a new cut of one of the others.
‘Champagne’ finds Bryce Boudreau crooning gravely about dark decadence, pain and salvation over Chris Murphy’s grandly epic backing.
The dancier remix treatments don’t really do the track much justice: the heavy-handed plinky synths of the Woolfy Mix and the minimal groove of the Haioka Remix make too little of the compellingly dark vocal performance.
The Ronin Remix, on the other hand, is unexpectedly heavy, and accentuates the lugubrious delivery that already received comparisons to Nick Cave and Tindersticks, and rightly so.
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There’s a hint of fellow Californian duo She Wants Revenge about The Berlin Edit of ‘Metroplex’, which finds Boudreau deadpanning archly gothic lines about smoke and mirrors over an electo backing that’s lifted straight from the 80s.
On balance, it’s probably one of the best remix EPs I’ve heard in a long while – although it does help that they’ve got such good material to work with.
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