When a band announces their third album of a single calendar year, the fear is, naturally, that it'll be nothing more than a hastily cobbled-together collection of outtakes and leftovers. There's simply no way that a group could keep producing great material at such an impressive, unrelenting clip...right?
Wrong. Not only is The Holy Cross Tigers — the fourth overall LP from New Orleans garage rock duo Twisted Teens and their third of 2026, following February's Blame the Clown and July's Florida Water Blues — an excellent record, it's their best yet. As on their previous efforts, vocalist/multi-instrumentalist Caspian Hollywell and steel guitarist RJ Santos manage to effortlessly blend their influences here into what Hollywell once described as “The Kinks of living in a school bus with no wheels on it. The Rolling Stones of Jungian anarchism. The Buzzcocks of the poisoned bogs of south Louisiana. Punk inflected country music, or country inflected punk music idk."
