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01. Alex Twomey - Trying to Be Real
02. Alex Twomey - Baby, I'm Dying
03. Alex Twomey - Addicted to Being Sad
04. Alex Twomey - New Year, New Doom
05. Alex Twomey - Big Night
06. Alex Twomey - Going On
07. Alex Twomey - Revisiting
08. Alex Twomey - Enough Time
09. Alex Twomey - Once a Day
ARTIST
TITLE
Days Off
FORMAT
CD

LABEL
CATALOG #
R 088CD R 088CD
GENRE
RELEASE DATE
11/26/2021

Alex Twomey's Days Off, the second full-length album under his own name, pronounces his evolving compositional approach. Following The Entertainer (R 058LP, 2019), this album features a more intimate ensemble of piano, strings, bass, and guitar. Written between 2019 and 2021, the arrangements resemble pop-structured songs within the margins of sedate orchestral music. Twomey's use of electric guitar is also unique; more as a blurred harmonic brush propelling rhythmic cycles and key changes. The influence of Michael Nyman, Penguin Cafe Orchestra, and other English-minimalists is present -- but Twomey as one-man composer, performer, and producer delivers a rare intimacy, a sardonic view of days better spent. We're transported to a restful couch in Alex's living room. His cats sleeping around you like gods in relief as the album echoes from his studio in the next room. With repeating chords of matched exuberance and melancholy, Days Off evokes a familiarity both optimistic and sentimental.