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Three Albums in One Year? New Orleans, Louisiana Duo Twisted Teens Hit Sub Pop With 'The Holy Cross Tigers'
Caspian Halliwell and RJ Santos follow 'Blame The Clown' and 'Florida Water Blues' with a Nov. 6 Sub Pop debut and dates with Kurt Vile.
New Orleans, Louisiana duo Twisted Teens are about to drop their third album of 2026. The Holy Cross Tigers land Friday, Nov. 6, on Sub Pop, the label that signed them in August, according to Sub Pop.
Three albums, one year
Caspian Halliwell and RJ Santos already released Blame The Clown earlier this year and Florida Water Blues in July, Stereogum reports. Sub Pop's bio color-codes the run: 2024 debut The Orange Album, then the "Green," "Blue" and now "Burgundy" albums.
The label's playful bio says the two were neighbors in New Orleans' Holy Cross neighborhood and started recording in Caspian's Holy Cross space, with their first release arriving in 2024. Stereogum called them "one of the most energizing, charming, straight-up exciting new rock bands to break out this year."
Sub Pop announced the signing Aug. 19, framing it as a deal to release their music "for 2026 and beyond." The new record runs 13 songs, from "Stalks" to "Darker The Night Is The Brighter I See," and is their first for Sub Pop.
"When We First Met" and "Stalks"
The band has described the album as "their very own Blood On The Tracks," Stereogum notes, and lead single "When We First Met" leans into that idea, with Halliwell looking back wistfully on the early days of a romance that has presumably soured. Anthony Simpkins directed its medieval-themed video, per The Line of Best Fit.
Sub Pop bills the full record as "a saga of heartbreak and hidden triumph." Follow-up "Stalks," out Oct. 7, is a murky surf-pop number built on rickety drum machines, baritone vocals, organ swirls and slide guitar, Stereogum wrote. Its video, directed by Mama Hot Dog, plays like a public-access dance-party show set in a junkyard.
The buzz is real: Stereogum notes the band "just got the Jeff Tweedy cover treatment."
On the road with Kurt Vile
An Australian tour begins Dec. 11 in Melbourne, The Line of Best Fit reports. Not bad for a band whose first record came out just two years ago.
Where to listen and follow
Pre-order The Holy Cross Tigers and follow the band on Sub Pop's Twisted Teens page.
Sources
Stereogum — "Twisted Teens Announce Third New Album This Year The Holy Cross Tigers: Hear "When We First Met""
Stereogum — "Twisted Teens – "Stalks""
The Line of Best Fit — "Twisted Teens announce third album of the year, The Holy Cross Tigers"
Sub Pop — "Twisted Teens on Sub Pop Records"