When Twin Atlantic first started in 2006 from the ashes of various other local bands, McTrusty already had big plans. I care about what people think but not in a way that stops me from doing whatever we want.” “It definitely felt carefree,’ added McTrusty “I still have all those old insecurities about ‘what if people don’t like it’ or ‘what if it gets absolutely slated’. With this one, I already knew how to make great guitar songs because of all the great producers we’ve worked with before. It took so much time and was mentally exhausting. I had to really dive into those genres, discover my own tastes, and experiment with sound. “When we started writing ‘Power’ I didn’t have a clue how any of the synths or electronic drums worked. However, their new album sees Twin Atlantic playing to their strengths, rather than trying to learn new ones. “It felt like we had a responsibility to do something different after signing a record deal and finding a fanbase.” “We’ve always put ourselves under a lot of pressure because we’ve always wanted to push things creatively,” he continued. We’re a weird band and instead of trying to fit in, we just ran in the other direction with it.” Coming from here, we’ve always felt separate from most scenes anyway. We wanted it to reflect the happiness of us coming out the other side and still being able to make music, but not disregard the darkness we’d been through to get to this point.”Ī post shared by twinatlantic about their desire for reinvention across their career, McTrusty said: “We’re just awkward Glaswegian art kids. It’s really hard to be a rock band and it’s been quite an uncool, cheesy thing for the past 15 years, but it’s what we like, so we’ve kept at it. After an arduous few years we just wanted to have fun. “It just felt really good playing those songs again,” said McTrusty, with the band taking that energy into the studio. Writing for the new record began last August, following on from the 10-year anniversary tour for ‘Free’. Sam McTrusty of Twin Atlantic performs at the second day of TRNSMT 2021. It’s basically a massive Twin Atlantic album.” “We’ve gone back to that big, bold, colourful sound. “It’s an unhinged guitar record but we’re not shying away from the fact we know how to write big pop choruses and we know how to write an emotional, acoustic song that makes sense on a big rock record,” he explained. The band are still in the middle of finishing up their new album, but according to McTrusty, “there are a thousand guitars on the record.” Still, rather than chasing trends, Twin Atlantic were “acting on impulse” for their new album, with ‘Stuck In A Car With You’ the most urgent of those new songs. They’ve been a huge part of our career, as well as my musical inspiration, so it was nice to respect that with this track,” said McTrusty. “We did two arena tours with Blink early in our career, we visited Tom DeLonge at his studio in California and supported his Angels & Airwaves band across Europe. Fall Out Boy and Paramore are bigger than ever, while Blink-182 are in the midst of a global reunion tour. Twin Atlantic’s return to emotionally-driven punk rock comes alongside a wider resurgence of the ‘00s pop-punk bands that the band grew up on. “‘Stuck In A Car With You’ is a no-nonsense, fast-paced rock song that shines a spotlight on the emotion behind it.” While 2022’s ‘ Transparency’ was a lo-fi electro-rock album and 2020’s ‘ Power’ took heavy influence from synth-pop, “with this record, we wanted to make something for the fans, and the kids who first started this band,” said McTrusty. “We’ve put our original fans through a bit of a whirlwind, because every record we’ve made almost sounds like a different band,” McTrusty told NME from his home studio in Glasgow. The first release on their own label Staple Diet, ‘Stuck In A Car With You’ is a return to the big, anthemic rock’n’roll of Twin Atlantic’s early records. READ MORE: Twin Atlantic: “Being dropped by our record label was a gut punch”.Check out ticket details and dates below, alongside our interview with frontman Sam McTrusty. Twin Atlantic have released new single ‘Stuck In A Car With You’ – the first from an upcoming “unhinged guitar record” – and shared news of an intimate UK tour.
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