Glasgow rockers, Twin Atlantic are back, with a brand new single ‘Novocaine’. The track is a first glimpse of the band’s upcoming fifth album, ‘Power’, which will be released on the 24th of January 202.
Twin Atlantic is made up of Sam McTrusty, Barry McKenna, Ross McNae, and Craig Kneale. Their upcoming album, ‘Power’, is their fifth record and the band’s first since 2016’s ‘GLA’
Speaking about the single, ‘Novocaine’, Sam McTrusty, said: “I wanted to force myself to be more honest and open. The song tells the story of the most intimate connection I’ve ever felt with someone else – when I first met my wife.
“That feeling of obsession taking over every thought and reason was almost like an addiction at the time. It embarrasses us in some ways that we fell victim to such a cliched movie script love story, but equally amazes us that it ever happened.”
The album, arrives three years after 2016’s ‘GLA’, sees the band recording in their own purpose built studio. This come after the band split from Red Bull Records, after a decade working together.
“We found ourselves without a record deal for the first time and we had the freedom of no one telling us looking over our shoulder. Having this studio, it felt like we were a new band with an insane drive to make music,” says frontman Sam McTrusty, speaking to NME.
“We just wanted to go in and learn how the studio worked, because we’ve only ever used other people’s. It felt like an addiction, it felt so fun just putting these parts together. We’ve been upgrading it as it goes along.”
The release of ‘Novocaine’, the first track to be taken from their upcoming album, ‘Power’, comes after the band announced that they will be hitting the road, in March 2020. The band will hit the road on a 13-date tour of the UK, which they will kick off, in Motherwell, on the 3rd of March 2020.
Twin Atlantic will then head to Aberdeen, Dundee, Kilmarnock, Newcastle, Manchester, Sheffield, Cardiff, Oxford, Leicester, Bournemouth, and Brighton, before concluding, in London, on the 20th of March 2020.
We are ready to announce our new album POWER which will be released on 24 January 2020. To celebrate the release we will be going on tour across the UK next March!
Pre-order POWER to get exclusive early access to our fan pre-sale next Wednesday from 9AM https://t.co/8gtdK7Zv1U pic.twitter.com/GRAmx0QTnj
— Twin Atlantic (@twinatlantic) October 17, 2019
Finding themselves without a record deal is not the only difference that came with Twin Atlantic’s upcoming fifth album, ‘Power’. After completing their fourth album, ‘GLA’, Twin Atlantic frontman Sam McTrusty found out that he experiences synesthesia.
This is a sensory phenomenon, which means that the singer sees sound as colour. Sam isn’t the only famous name to experience the phenomenon as it is also experienced by Lorde.
Speaking about experiencing synesthesia, McTrusty, said: “At the end of ‘GLA’, I’d been reading a lot about synesthesia. It was one of the few good things I’d been reading on social media and was like, ‘Fucking hell, that’s exactly hell what I’ve got’, especially with all the stimulation. When I listen back to things, I can see these different colour palettes and stuff in my head.”
He continued: “I suddenly became conscious of that, so I tried to start with a limited palate of colours. The sound came from having these strict rules, and because we didn’t have an A&R man or someone at a record label giving us their input, we needed those strict rules so I kinda just made them up subconsciously.”
Twin Atlantic Tour Dates 2020:
03/03/2020 – Concert Hall – Motherwell
04/03 – Music Hall – Aberdeen
06/03 – Fat Sams – Dundee
07/03 – Grand Hall – Kilmarnock
09/03 – Riverside – Newcastle
10/03 – Academy 2 – Manchester
11/03 – The Leadmill – Sheffield
13/03 – The Tramshed – Cardiff
14/03 – O2 Academy – Oxford
15/03 – O2 Academy – Leicester
17/03 – The Old Firestation – Bournemouth
18/03 – Concorde 2 – Brighton
20/03 – Electric – London
