You know it's gotta be a damn good single for me to break my we don't cover singles!-policy here, right? Well this new one from Laurel Canyon is just excellent. A brash, sassy bit of post-punk-inspired pop, "Two Times Emptiness" indicates that you need to start following this duo right away.
Of course readers of this site know that half of this duo was in The Yetis, one of the criminally underrated American indie acts of recent years. Along with Nick Gillespie, Laurel Canyon is Serg Cereja. The pair have unleased something special here. "Two Times Emptiness" is equal parts Strokes and The Libertines. There's a Doherty-like swagger here, and a Richard Hell-ish roughness and these pieces combine to make this a great single. The whole "Tell Me More!" refrain takes this further back, to The Shangri-Las. And it's that mix of the punk and the pop that these two have mastered so well. And it doesn't hurt that the cut is as damn catchy as most of those cuts from The Yetis were. Get with this ASAP folks.
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[Photos: Nick Gillespie/Laurel Canyon]