Biography

NYC alt-rock band The Twin began as a solo project for singer-songwriter Bryan Louie (Joshua Fit for Battle, Common Sage). He penned many songs during a long, drawn out breakup, figuring the tracks would be mostly acoustic; the empty spaces haunted by echoes and specters of his crumbling relationship. However, he quickly realized he needed a band to give justice to the sentiment in the tracks. He ran into drummer Jeff Gensterblum (Coalesce, The Casket Lottery) at a show in Brooklyn, and after many games of pool, convinced bassist Eric Odness (Ageist, Primitive Weapons) to join the group, and shortly after added lead guitarist Arty Shepherd (errortype11, Beiin, Instruction).

In 2019, the four traveled to the wonderful “Liberal Pour” city of Baltimore to record with legend J. Robbins at his Magpie Cage Studio. With J's expertise, the songs reached their full potential and the heartbreak was pressed into the album Dead Rose, released by Mind Over Matter Records in 2021. The band toured the record sporadically in the Northeast, hitting Philadelphia, NYC, Boston, and Providence.

Years passed. The lineup changed. They added new bassist Michael MacIvor (Candiria, LaMacchia) and were no longer submerged in themes of heartbreak and loss. A reawakening and a new emergence, as these things go — it’s New York fuckin’ City, after all — and the band headed back to the studio with Adam Cichocki at Timber Studios across the river in Bayonne, New Jersey. The result was the new album Blue Honey — eight tracks of sonic assault as pure as brand new love. It’s a marked departure from the self-destructive darkness of Dead Rose, turning the corner to embrace the impulsive recklessness and debauchery of newly realized freedom. Recovery, healing, depravity, and euphoria--these themes suffuse the new album in a heavier, but more uplifting sound. Released in the fall of 2025 on Mind Over Matter Records, Blue Honey unfurls like an ocean wave pounding a rocky shoreline. After playing two record-release shows in NYC and Philadelphia, the band plans to bring their songs to as many cities as they can in 2026.

For fans of: Catherine Wheel, Deftones, Nothing, Jawbox