Tanlines' first proper album —following the cobbled-together collection Volume On— is called Mixed Emotions (due March 20 on True Panther Sounds, PS). Where early singles were knocked out with the righteous joyousness of dancefloor abandon —the cresting peaks of "Real Life," the sun-bleached reggae-beat blips of "O Seizing the Day-O," the first track to be taken from Mixed Emotions lives up to the LP's title.
"Brothers" carries with it the percussive drive of prior Tanlines productions, but all that giddy day-seizing joie de vivre has been replaced by an inescapable sense of melancholy. "You're just the same as you ever were," Eric Emm sings, in an 'easy' voice trending towards doleful, "I'm just the same as I ever been/but I'm the only one who doesn't notice it."
It's a study, one assumes, of a fraternal relationship; the familial forever fertile grounds for mixed emotions. As the song progresses through four minutes of sad-sounding synths, you feel the brothers' slowly drifting apart; the passage of time slowly seeping the closeness from their feelings, leaving only a vague sense of a shared history.
Tanlines, "Brothers"
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