Love It When I Feel Like This

The Twang release what can only be described as their hugely anticipated debut album, 'Love It When I Feel Like This'. Recorded with long term producer Gavin Monahan at his Magic Garden Studios in Wolverhampton and mixed by Mark ‘Spike’ Stent at Olympic Studios, 'Love It When I Feel Like This' follows their debut single, 'Wide Awake' which crashed into the UK charts at number 15.

As with all "overnight successes" The Twang are not the product of six months work. When guitarist Stu Hartland became the last to join two years ago, the band had already put in three years of demoing, gigging, chasing Noel Gallagher across the Glastonbury fields to try and give him a demo. It is testament to their belief in themselves that they got this far.

The debut album brings together the best of their work in those two years, from the full on dance inflected grooves of 'Ice Cream Sundae' and 'Loosely Dancing' to the confessionals of 'Wide Awake' and 'Got Me Sussed', Phil Etheridge’s knack of defining universal experiences with humour and insight to the fore throughout. Fusing their well documented love of guitar music from Oasis through to the current time with their equal love of dance music from an adolescence spent clubbing, the album draws on a catalogue of genres over its eleven tracks.

In the six months since their debut London gig, much has been written about The Twang. They are lads, they are "wild", they are the new spirit of rock ‘n’ roll. All of which have some truth but to really understand The Twang listen to 'Don't Wait Up' and then 'Got Me Sussed' or 'The Neighbour' and 'Either Way'. These songs are not caricatures of laddish life but documents of the excess and regret, the highs and lows of normal life. When you've "spent the shopping money" as "a couple turned into ten" ('Don't Wait Up'), then it's inevitable that the hammer will fall and you admit that, "I did it to myself so I shouldn't complain" ('Got Me Sussed').

The Twang are a gang but they're a hardworking gang, they're from the normal life lived in towns and cities across the country but they want more and they are getting it. Most importantly, they've achieved their initial goal; to make this record and document the world as they see it, the world as they, and their friends (who are a huge part of this story and this album), live it. They are the most talked about band of this year but they are also one of the brightest hopes to emerge from the UK in years. As they say themselves on album (and live set closer) 'Cloudy Room', "there's no going back from here".