“Wolf in the Breast” (Cocteau Twins song)

Twin Court’s use of what often sounds like improvised, and certainly unconventional, percussion and a bell that borders on discordant lends “Wolf in the Breast” a unique musical texture and a quality of something rough hewn like something from a non-Western folk tradition. But the songwriting with its soft vocals and delicately resonant guitar melodies are reminiscent of Yo La Tengo if that band had hailed from a more rural setting rather than Hoboken, New Jersey. There is a melancholic haze to the song that heightens aspect of thoughtful introspection. The lyrics are at times enigmatic and others seemingly an impressionistic meditation on how everyone has sides of themselves hidden away until the right experiences draw them out and how sides of our own personalities can sit firmly in our own blind spots until they’re brought into conscious focus in a way that makes them seem like they should have been obvious to us all along. Listen to “Wolf in the Breast” (not to be confused with the Cocteau Twins song of the same name) on YouTube and follow Twin Court at the links below.