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Strange Diary

by Psychic Twin

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Kirk Gauthier
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Kirk Gauthier It’s hard to say what is the best part of this album. Is it the transcendent vocals that lift you off your feet and wipe away your tears? Or is it the vibrant flow that puts one foot in front of the other as you dance your way through the day? Or perhaps it’s a little of both? Either way, this album is a BOP. Favorite track: Strangers.
Juan Perez
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Juan Perez Beats that just burrow into your mind! Love it! Favorite track: Running in the Dark.
R__
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R__ This album reminds me of "Pure Bathing Culture" and is very good. Favorite track: Lose Myself.
Sarah Oksiuta
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Sarah Oksiuta I know so much work has gone into this album and I love the final result. I often leave it on repeat for hours. I looooove the vocals in "Hopeless"!!! Favorite track: Hopeless (I won't take part of you).
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1.
I divide my heart and it tears me apart
2.
We don't need to speak the same language We just need to see each other's hearts Cause even when we try it's like we're strangers And I don't want to waste our time apart I know it when I lie awake for hours And I know it when the night is all I have That even when we build these mighty towers I know that we can take them down again So when I go, I go right Will you go, you go right? We don't need to speak, we just need to see
3.
In the night I think of you Don't know what I'm supposed do And when I wake you're always on my mind I try to undo what I've done So I run In the night you're always on my mind I try to undo what I've done So I run far away from you
4.
Stop in Time 04:46
No I can’t stop in time So I always run And my heart it unwinds Until there is almost none.
5.
Unlock your heart, is it so hard? Unlock your heart, is it so hard? I know when you push me down I know it’s because you’re under ground And when you, when you try to walk away I will I will get you, make you stay I’m gonna make you stay I’ll make you stay We can work it out, work it out baby We can work it out baby Maybe we can work it out?
6.
And I remain hopelessly alone in the heart Like I’ve always been from the start At night I’ll stay desperately awake in the dark Like I’ve always been from the start I won’t take part of you I won’t take part of you I won’t take part of you Want all of you, want all of you And I remain hopelessly alone in the heart Like I’ve always been from the start At night I’ll stay desperately awake in the dark Like I’ve always been from the start I won’t take part of you I won’t take part of you I won’t take part of you Want all of you, want all of you Can’t you see you’re breaking my heart? Absolutely tearing it apart
7.
Lose Myself 03:44
I fall Into the ground I disappear Without a sound And I fall To get over you So now I lose myself too And when I go farther I lose myself And when I go farther I lose myself And when I go farther I lose myself To get over you I fall Like the beating rain Like water Is the pain And I fall To get over you So now I lose myself too And when I go farther I lose myself And when I go farther I lose myself And when I go farther I lose myself To get over you
8.
Chase You 05:34
When I look into your eyes I see so much pain We never asked for it to be this way Is it because everyone turned their backs? And they told us this would never last And it’s true we’re different me and you But there’s nothing that you can do Even if you slip away in the night I’ll chase you down baby, I’m gonna put up a fight I’ll chase you down baby I’ll chase you down There’s nowhere you can go that you can’t be found I’ll chase it down, maybe I’ll chase you down There’s nowhere you can go that you can’t be found Wherever you go I’ll be right behind Wherever you go you know it’s me you’ll find Even if you slip away in the night I’ll chase you down baby, I’m gonna put up a fight I’ll chase you down baby I’ll chase you down There’s nowhere you can go that you can’t be found I’ll chase it down, maybe I’ll chase you down There’s nowhere you can go that you can’t be found
9.
I know you’ll never know Just how much I have been so alone Only I know Now every time I think that I am alone I find myself right back home And now that I can see that things have changed I promise you that I will stay I know it’s hard to get to the deepest part But I bet you, that if you want to get to the deepest part I’ll let you Now every time I think that I am alone I find myself right back home And now that I can see that things have changed I promise you that I will stay I will stay I will stay I will stay Will I stay Will I stay Will I stay?

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In dreams, we rarely know what we are running from or toward. We only know we must keep running, continue searching. Psychic Twin’s debut album, Strange Diary, lives in that state of surreal urgency. What’s in front of us or behind us can’t be described, but we are sure in our bones that what we are searching for exists just a few steps away.

These songs are “dreamlike” in a more fundamental sense than that overused descriptor implies. They reflect the emotionally arduous and unpredictable journey that singer, songwriter, and composer Erin Fein took to creating them.

The making of Strange Diary spans four years and two states. Fein began writing and composing solo material in Champaign-Urbana, Ill. amid the dissolution of her marriage. Following the divorce, she relocated to Brooklyn, N.Y. and continued to write and record-despite lineup changes and the lonely disorientation that comes from shedding an old life and starting over.

Recorded with producer Jacob Portrait (STRFKR, Unknown Mortal Orchestra), the album contains songs written before, during, and after the divorce, from both New York and Illinois. The subject of each song is an unnamed “you,” who she alternately pleads with and flees from. “These songs are 100% a diary of my life over the last four years,” says Fein.

Today, Psychic Twin’s evolution includes drummer Rosana Caban and Fein’s absorption of several sources of inspiration. While rooted in the avant pop of The Cocteau Twins, Siousxie, and Annie Lennox, contemporary production flourishes lend each song the clarity and buoyancy of contemporary pop. The music balances languid, dark melodies and atmosphere with propulsive rhythms and soaring vocal lines. It’s beautiful and catchy. It’s like the sound of someone reaching the end of that dream, finding what they’ve been searching for through all the haze.

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released September 9, 2016

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Psychic Twin makes pop music that is romantic and mysterious; infused with an ineffable longing for escape, for the unattainable, like the impossible desire to make music with one’s own double.

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