{The Summer Twins are currently playing a residency at the Bootleg Bar, free on Mondays in June, there’s one more to catch, apparently themed as “Prom Night” on June 24th. They’ll also be our guests this Sunday on Melting Pot!}
The Summer Twins – I’m No Good
As I recently learned, the Summer Twins are not in fact twins, though sisters Chelsea and Justine Brown are their most visible members. Hailing from Riverside, the band has produced a number of releases over the last several years shifting from a sound that might have been best described as heavy on “Dream Pop” to one more focused on the more “dreamy” aspects of 1950s/1960s Rock’n’roll. On their 5 song EP, released earlier in the year (though there is a 7″ record of the title song and the one I’m highlighting here “I’m No Good” coming soon) you can hear equal parts of those two disparate musical moments brought together in the band’s use of harmony and melody and beautiful swooning and swaying guitars. “I’m No Good” might be the standout, and my favorite track the band has recorded to date, as Chelsea sweetly warns the listener that despite appearances to the contrary she is not the kind of woman you want to place your trust in or fall in love. No matter how much she warns us if they keep producing songs like this they’re going to have to deal with all kinds of attention.
Showing a bit more of that 1960s influence, stylistically for sure, and perhaps musically as well if you’ve spent anytime listening to the Girls In The Garage collections, the band has also produced a video for their song “Forget Me” that is also likely to have the opposite of their desired effect: