Twin Atlantic - Power review

The Guardian 60

(Virgin EMI)
Sam McTrusty and co break out the 80s electronic palette for their fifth album, full of hooks and ideas – too many at times

As the charts bristle with elliptical trap chants and the patchwork motifs of too-cool-for-choruses pop, your best bet for big, euphoric melodies now seems to be the world of sweat-drenched, leather-jacketed, sleeve-tattooed rock. Twin Atlantic are notably capable purveyors of that kind of impassioned and uncomplicated anthemic rush – just try to remain unmoved in the face of their scuzzily saccharine 2014 hit Heart and Soul. In fact, the only thing about the trio that doesn’t feel expressly engineered for moshpit ecstasy is frontman Sam McTrusty’s thick Scottish accent, which reorientates the band’s soaring hooks against grey Glasgow skies.