Free from distractions and with a renewed love for making music, twins set about creating an album in a caravan. This record is the result.

By Graeme Smith

Accompanied simply by gently plucked acoustic guitar, the lyrics come to the fore in the intimate opening verse of first track Avoidance. They feel like a confession, rich with poetry that holds the attention. As the track progresses, the instrumental grows slightly more complex, yet the intimacy stays.

That closeness is kept in Feel Your Phone, and indeed throughout the album. It’s a stand out feature in a record that was made in an old caravan on an apple farm in the West Country with only guitars, microphones, and a laptop for company.

Alongside the album’s eight tracks, twins has released three music videos. The folksy, Radiohead-esque Life Forgetter, the haunting Dust, and the weary Meant the World all get visualisations. There’s also a live version of album closer Here, Away recorded in the titular caravan on twins’ YouTube channel which pulls back the curtain on the recording experience.

The recording name of London-based musician, tattooist and visual artist Loz KeyStone, twins is a project born on the other side of the world in Colombia. There, KeyStone worked with the hallucinogenic plant Ayahuasca and discovered an urgent need for song writing, a pursuit that had escaped him for almost a decade following the death of his father. Appropriately, grief looms large throughout Caravan, and so does a sense of healing and growing self-awareness.

The album is out now, available to buy as a digitally on Bandcamp. You can listen to it below.