Tag: “Ribs” (Twin Fates song)

With Twin Fates’ “Ribs” you are from the very beginning pulled into a fantastical sonic realm of intimate spaces and ethereal soundscapes. Processed vocals hover and come into focus like a fey shoegaze hyperpop singer—autotune used truly creatively to bring to the song a sense of the otherworldly that demands being taken on its own terms like something Alice Glass would write if she put her hand to writing a dream pop piece. The placid drones that weave in and through the song seemingly about sweet and tender memories of another time and of the recognition of one’s infatuation and the ways in which one has felt the need to mask one’s absolute true self as a sustained act of self-protection but being accepted when the facade can no longer be fully maintained. That moment of feeling that embrace of one’s truth is so poignant in the song that the fact that the song isn’t in some super established subgenre of music doesn’t matter at all and is a symbol of the meaning of the song. Listen to “Ribs” on Spotify.