Kevin Bronson on January 17th, 2013

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A lot has happened since Twinstar last released music in 2005 – Facebook, e-books, smart phones, dumb trends, shifts in politics, changes in climates … Oh, and singer, songwriter and multi-instrumentalist Keith Joyner got his college degree. “No wonder the LP took its leisurely time getting here,” Joyner says of Twinstar’s return, “The Sound of Leaving.” The new album, out March 26 and made with Joyner’s co-conspirator Chris Candelaria, melds the songwriters’ post-punk and New Wave influences into a collection with a healthy dose of raucous jangle to go along with its orchestrated sheen. A host of veteran hands joined in to realize the project, including Joe Higgins, Chris Carmichael, David Roland, David Newton and Erin Barnes, and the results represent a much more widescreen vision of Twinstar’s way-back-when releases (2002’s self-titled debut, 2003’s “Expatriate and 2005’s “The Arena of the Unwell.” The first single, “Amazon Eyes,” has the romantic sweep of some of the cinematic U.K. bands we loved back in the day. Imagine your own film.

||| Stream: “Amazon Eyes”