Album Review: Twerps - Range Anxiety

There’s not too much angst on display across Melbourne indie icons Twerps’ second album, Range Anxiety, a gentle progression from their eponymous 2011 debut.

Their penchant for indolent meanderings remains intact, songs like lazy summer shrug I Don’t Mind and the bittersweet melancholy of Back To You swelling and circling around central conceits. Julia McFarlane adds to frontman Martin Frawley’s relaxed palette with three strong vocal offerings (Shoulders, Stranger, Adrenaline), while Fern Murderers is haunting and hook-laden and Cheap Education more urgent but equally infectious. A strong step forwards.