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TWINKIDS, the Los Angeles based queer pop duo of Tokyo born musician Gene Fukui and Florida native Matt Young, put forth their debut EP Boys Love last year, paying homage to the gay romance manga genre of the same name and drawing influence from both 80s J-pop and artists like Imogen Heap & Bonobo for the release. This year sees them continuing to enthrall our hearts with that recipe via songs like Jigoku Tengoku and now new single I’m Sorry, for which TWINKIDS recently shared a fresh music video. It’s a lush stirring, kaleidoscopic whirling synthpop song, a glossy simmering, diaphanous fluttering beauty that explores the complexity of relationships, and how we affect and manipulate one another even if we don’t mean to. You can stream TWINKIDS’ music on Spotify, here.

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Los Angeles queer pop duo TWINKIDS shows no sign of slowing down after giving us sultry surging Overdressed and experimental haunting Body Wonder this summer. The pair, consisting of Tokyo born Gene Fukui and Floridian Matt Young, continue to push boundaries and entrap us within their finespun compositions by releasing their debut EP, Boys Love, in full.  Aside from the aforementioned gems, Boys Love also features this gossamer swelling, aqueous roiling experimental piece, Shotgun. Glitchy electronica, ethereal pop, and warped beats frolic weightlessly on the other worldly alt track, which feels like it has a flickering, undulating life of its own. TWINKIDS’ debut EP is a seven track coming of age homage to the gay romance manga genre of the same name, drawing influence from 80′s J-pop and artists like Imogen Heap and Bonobo.  "All the songs on 'Boys Love' were written during a really unstable time in our lives, right after we moved to Los Angeles," TWINKIDS says of the EP. "They’re all about the anxieties of being young, gay, in love, with no sense of self. I think you can hear that tension in the production too. Its all very high contrast in the way the songs suddenly open up just to tighten or close in later." Boys Love is out now on Om Records. Stream/download, here.

Los Angeles based queer pop duo TWINKIDS are certainly on a roll lately. It’s nary been two weeks since Tokyo born Gene Fukui and Florida’s Matt Young gave us groovy luscious Overdressed, and here they are again with another intoxicating song named Body Wonder. Hauntingly echoing percussion, diaphanous vocals, and a ghostly ambiance permeates this sultry experimental piece. Body Wonder shifts and tugs, pulls and sways. It’s an intricately textured, opaquely finespun electronic and pop composition that evokes some of Hundred Waters’ more eccentric songs. Body Wonder is lifted from the duo’s Boys Love EP, arriving August 18th via Om Records. You can purchase this song about romantic desperation from iTunes, here.

Jigoku Tengoku - TWINKIDS