Twisted Teens - The Holy Cross Tigers - 1LP on Maroon Coloured Vinyl. To be released 6th November.
The fourth album by the underground rock sensation Twisted Teens is a perfectly ragged, magnetic mix of blues, folk, and punk.
Twisted Teens’ prior albums have received vast acclaim from Pitchfork, PASTE, see/saw, and other rock/indie/punk tastemakers; they’ve quickly sold through multiple vinyl pressings of all three LPs.
For fans of Kurt Vile, Pavement, Amyl and the Sniffers, Reigning Sound, The Replacements.
Twisted Teens - aka Caspian Halliwell and RJ Santos - had been making music from Cajun/country to anarcho-folk under the radar and off the grid, living and working itinerantly.
Twisted Teens came from a pandemic-induced burst of inspiration that drew them together to record, in suitably lo-fi fashion, at Caspian’s New Orleans home. Their first album quickly became a modern classic of sticky, warm rock, bunching blues, folk, and punk into a raw and irresistible concoction.
The duo came back strong in 2026 with Blame the Clown - instantly, enthusiastically co-signed Pitchfork and Paste - and then the equally acclaimed Florida Water Blues, an absurdist take on their wanderings around the world.
Their third magnetic and perfectly ragged album of the year, “The Holy Cross Tigers.” is a saga of heartbreak and hidden triumph.
The songs are anthems of longing, and myriad disappointments, fuelled by everything from a brutal breakup to snitching ex-friends. Despite these woes, The Holy Cross Tigers has a sense of radiance, a feeling of reflected light pushing against the sadness. Instantly relatable, it feels like a few friends sharing the burdens of life with one another, the results strange and ecstatic because they are operating by their own rules. It is a blown-out transmission from the lip of heartbreak, a place where even the lucky have been and from which they have hopefully returned.
Tracklisting:
1.Stalks
2.When We First Met
3.Be An Angel
4.Blue Rose
5.I Spend My Time Crying
6.Blue Flower
7.I Bring
8.Look In The Mirror
9.Lock And Key
10.Figure It Out
11.Armed With A Vision
12.Every Flower
13.Darker The Night Is The Brighter I See
Sub Pop Cat. No. SP1755X 2026
Twisted Teens - The Holy Cross Tigers - 1LP on Maroon Coloured Vinyl. To be released 6th November.
The fourth album by the underground rock sensation Twisted Teens is a perfectly ragged, magnetic mix of blues, folk, and punk.
Twisted Teens’ prior albums have received vast acclaim from Pitchfork, PASTE, see/saw, and other rock/indie/punk tastemakers; they’ve quickly sold through multiple vinyl pressings of all three LPs.
For fans of Kurt Vile, Pavement, Amyl and the Sniffers, Reigning Sound, The Replacements.
Twisted Teens - aka Caspian Halliwell and RJ Santos - had been making music from Cajun/country to anarcho-folk under the radar and off the grid, living and working itinerantly.
Twisted Teens came from a pandemic-induced burst of inspiration that drew them together to record, in suitably lo-fi fashion, at Caspian’s New Orleans home. Their first album quickly became a modern classic of sticky, warm rock, bunching blues, folk, and punk into a raw and irresistible concoction.
The duo came back strong in 2026 with Blame the Clown - instantly, enthusiastically co-signed Pitchfork and Paste - and then the equally acclaimed Florida Water Blues, an absurdist take on their wanderings around the world.
Their third magnetic and perfectly ragged album of the year, “The Holy Cross Tigers.” is a saga of heartbreak and hidden triumph.
The songs are anthems of longing, and myriad disappointments, fuelled by everything from a brutal breakup to snitching ex-friends. Despite these woes, The Holy Cross Tigers has a sense of radiance, a feeling of reflected light pushing against the sadness. Instantly relatable, it feels like a few friends sharing the burdens of life with one another, the results strange and ecstatic because they are operating by their own rules. It is a blown-out transmission from the lip of heartbreak, a place where even the lucky have been and from which they have hopefully returned.
Tracklisting:
1.Stalks
2.When We First Met
3.Be An Angel
4.Blue Rose
5.I Spend My Time Crying
6.Blue Flower
7.I Bring
8.Look In The Mirror
9.Lock And Key
10.Figure It Out
11.Armed With A Vision
12.Every Flower
13.Darker The Night Is The Brighter I See
Sub Pop Cat. No. SP1755X 2026
