Introducing: The Twins with new EP ‘There&Back’

Meet the brothers bringing Desi energy to electroclash. Today, The Twins drop their long-awaited new EP There&Back, the product of the underground mythology and dizzying rise which has announced them as one of the most compelling forces to emerge in the UK electronic scene. To celebrate the release, they lean into the mind-melting digital whirlwind ‘fucking creep’ which calls upon club overlord Varg²™, another elevation from the game-changing release of their “Bollywood Electronic” hit ‘holding on’ featuring rising star RADA.

The South Asian Underground has been inseparable from the DNA of UK electronic music since the late 90s, shaped by the diaspora’s blending of their heritage with British club sounds. The Twins mark a new generation in this lineage, honouring that history and evolving its sound into a new vision for what South Asian British music can be. With Jamal handling production and Omar fronting vocals, the duo fuse their Pakistani-British heritage with desi-infused EDM to carve out a sound that tells a cultural story.

There&Back is a distillation of what makes The Twins a force to reckon with – their first release driven by a clear vision. The 20-year-old brothers set the internet alight with their debut mixtape TURMERIC last year which featured their breakout collaboration with Fakemink, ‘FUCKERSBY’. It captured their shared, instinctive musical language which spanned Jai Paul, MGMT and Test Icicles to Desi deep-cuts on SoundCloud. There&Backsublimates their frenetic teenage angst into sharpened storytelling; tracks which can still erupt on the dancefloor charged with meaning.

The EP’s title captures the dislocation that followed their meteoric rise, travelling everywhere and yet belonging nowhere. Impermanence and existing in the cracks between is the personal and cultural experience The Twins’ music holds a mirror to. Their songwriting was inspired by sensory reaction: ‘lime green tucked in’ captures a visceral anxiety and the panic of spiralling out of control that the colour evoked for them; closing track ‘fam’ is their most personal track to date, untangling the weight of expectation from family and the fear of disappointing them by choosing to pursue a career in music.

The Twins saved up money in college from odd jobs to rent a studio space in London for two months, determined to put all their chips in to pursue a shared dream. That summer, word of mouth caught like wildfire and soon the duo’s music was attracting talent across London who wanted to collaborate. And so it began: musical outliers committed to their own vision while leading a wider cultural charge in the electronic world.

Tonight The Twins will celebrate the release headlining the inaugural Asian Paper Collective party at Colour Factory, where they will be joined by Amil Raja, Varg²™, The Sound Chalk Makes and more. Asian Paper was founded by The Twins alongside Amil Raja and creative director Arran Ashan. See the show poster and the full tracklisting for There & Back below.

     THE TWINS – THERE&BACK
TRACKLISTING

holding on
fucking creep ft. Varg²™
lime green
just a little pinch
run
fam

There&Back Artwork