New Twin Atlantic album “will catch people off guard”

Having spent the last six and a half years on the road almost constantly, it was with their debut full-length ‘Free’ that things began to fall into place for Twin Atlantic. After its release in 2011, a slew of headline tours, festival appearances, a Gold certification and soundtracking a free fall from space followed, and the Scottish four-piece finally found themselves playing to the audiences they had always hoped for. Now they’re back with a second album, ‘Great Divide’, but they’re set to change things up a little.

“The best part of the build up for me,” explains frontman Sam McTrusty in the new issue of DIY, “is knowing that there are still songs on there that will catch people off guard. We know the cards that we have up our sleeves, so that’s the exciting thing. From the beginning of doing it, a thing we were always talking about was, ‘What type of song do we not have in a headline set?’ That was a starting point for writing songs. We had a billion ideas for a riff, a piano part, a drum fill that could be maybe a song. We scrapped a lot of good ideas because they already existed.”

Read more in the August issue of DIY, out Friday 8th August.