Product Overview
Twisted Teens - aka Caspian Halliwell and RJ Santos - didn't really exist before it's 2024 debut LP, now known as The Orange Album. The pair had been making music from Cajun/country to anarcho-folk under the radar and off the grid, living and working itinerantly. Twisted Teens came from a pandemic-induced burst of inspiration that drew them together to record, in suitably lo-fi fashion, at Caspian's New Orleans home. Their first album quickly became a modern classic of sticky, warm rock, bunching blues, folk, and punk into a raw and irresistible concoction. The duo came back strong in 2026 with Blame the Clown - instantly, enthusiastically cosigned Pitchfork and Paste - and then the equally acclaimed Florida Water Blues, an absurdist take on their wanderings around the world.
Their third magnetic and perfectly ragged album of 2026 is a saga of heartbreak and hidden triumph called The Holy Cross Tigers. The songs are anthems of longing, and myriad disappointments, fueled by everything from a brutal breakup to snitching ex-friends. Despite these woes, The Holy Cross Tigers has a sense of radiance, a feeling of reflected light pushing against the sadness. Instantly relatable, it feels like a few friends sharing the burdens of life with one another, the results strange and ecstatic because they are operating by their own rules. It is a blown-out transmission from the lip of heartbreak, a place where even the lucky have been and from which they have hopefully returned.
| A1 | Stalks | 2:48 | |
| A2 | When We First Met | 1:52 | |
| A3 | Be an Angel | 3:46 | |
| A4 | Blue Rose | 2:09 | |
| A5 | I Spend My Time Crying | 2:57 | |
| A6 | Blue Flower | 1:06 | |
| A7 | I Bring | 2:04 | |
| B1 | Look in the Mirror | 2:02 | |
| B2 | Lock and Key | 2:00 | |
| B3 | Figure It Out | 2:45 | |
| B4 | Armed With a Vision | 3:05 | |
| B5 | Every Flower | 3:36 | |
| B6 | Darker the Night Is the Brighter I See | 3:02 |
