INDIE ALBUM OF THE WEEK
The headline track on Twerps’ new record is ‘New Moves’, but the album itself is anything but. In fact, you could playRange Anxietyand their 2014 albumUnderlayin sequence and think that you were listening to the same record the whole way through.
The musicality varies enough from track to track for Range Anxiety to be a great standalone album, but you can’t help but feel like Twerps are typecasting themselves by repeatedly going back to their comfort zone each time around. That said, songs like ‘Simple Feelings’ and ‘Cheap Education’ serve as reminders of the frenetic coolness that Twerps are capable of, but unfortunately its value is cheapened by the mediocrity of tracks like ‘Love At First Sight’.
Nonetheless, Twerps are coming off a run of successful shows internationally, so there really isn’t a reason to change a winning formula.
Range Anxiety is a great soundtrack for spare time spent playing video games in your undies. But much like the waistband on those undies, Twerps can only stretch their sound so far.
3.5/5.
Range Anxietyis out now through Chapter.
