Window Twins

***“Though TIM COHEN (THE FRESH & ONLYS, MAGIC TRICK) and JON BERNSON (EXRAY’S, RAY’S VAST BASEMENT) have been longtime collaborators, WINDOW TWINS is the primary outlet for their shared visions; a cyclical partnership, struck up when the animus moves both Bay Area staples. With the support of close friend and visual artist KEVIN EARL TAYLOR, the duo advances on the strength of two distinctive voices at play in their recordings. Though the two musicians’ equally distinctive vocals have a central role, they act in tandem with meticulously orchestrated loops and potent but minimal instrumentation. Wish is the group’s second album together and it deftly focuses the parameters of its predecessor, I’m This Tall City, released in 2009. Famous genre-busters, Cohen and Bernson conjure an endless range of sensation in their collaboration, their dry wits finding outlets in drowsy psych-soul, shambolic rhapsodies; anxious meditations given further character by WARREN HUEGEL’s layered percussion, AARON ROCKER’s moody horns and AMANDA HALLQUIST’s solitary wurlitzer. To all of this, add an experimental beat sensibility, beyond and often in tandem with live drums, that really seems to define the collaboration and the core of its shared experiment.”