aaamusic | On 18, Sep 2011

New York’s Twin Shadow has released a brand new one-off single entitled ‘Changes’ which premiered on US radio station, KCRW.

‘Changes’ is Twin Shadow’s version of the track ‘Circus Is Gone’ – the original song was written and recorded by 80s group Baggare. George Lewis Jr (the nom de plume of Twin Shadow) said this about the recording:

“Close to a year ago I discovered one of my favorite bands. Like most of my favorite bands I stumble on them accidentally while looking for rare music on youtube. The band was called Bagarre, some weird italo disco stuff with an asian/english singer, I was immediately drawn to a song called “Circus Is Gone” and for fun the band started covering it while on tour. We were on our way out to play dates with Florence & The Machine in LA and I thought I would take two days with Twin Shadow keyboardist Wynne Bennett, to lock ourselves up in a studio, eat lots of good Mexican food and experiment with updating this great song. This is what we came up with. After working on the song I wanted someone with some pop chops to touch it, so we reached out to mixer Michael Brauer, who really took what we had done and instead of doing any major changes, just pumped life into it, and made it jump. They call it “Circus Is Gone,” I call it Changes.”

‘Changes’ is available as a free download from www.twinshadow.net/

Currently on tour in the US, George Lewis Jr. plans to begin working on the follow up to Forget later this year with an expected release date in the first half of 2012 on 4AD worldwide.