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Twin Cabins: With Benefits

Bedroom dream pop chillwaver Nacho Cano posts new track.

“I have this great admiration for girls and in particular my closest (girl) friends,” Nacho Cano of bedroom project Twin Cabins told the Reader last September.

“I allow them into my life and I let them get close. Over time, like any other, I begin to romanticize what it would be like to be with this friend. I feel great frustration when these feelings arise because though I would like to indulge in my emotions, friendships always come first. So my music became an exploration at this frustration with a very particular kind of romance, one that didn’t exist. The songs became a narrative for a romance that would likely never happen. Yet the song allows me to feel that emotion as it is truly mine and somehow that seems like it is enough for me.”

It may sound like a voiceover from a Michael Cera movie, but when Cano’s guileless sense of chivalry is filtered through cheesy ‘80s drums, ‘verby vox, and beach-toned guitar, the resulting dream pop musings are nothing short of blissful.


“The reason I wanted to explore the 80’s vibes are because it was a time that I was never a part of. I can’t be nostalgic of encounters and years that I never really had. So if I wanted to be true to my romantic fantasies and pains, I wanted to conjure a theme of a nostalgia that could never be true.”

The approach works, and sometimes, when my weltschmerz starts acting up and the world becomes snaggletoothed and fart-flavored, Cano’s teenage Quixote serenade breathes a glimmer of magic back into the mudanity.

The meta-sentiment of nostalgia for Cano’s nostalgia for something that never happened is simple soul syrup, so try a sizzip of his new track, “With Benefits.”

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“I have this great admiration for girls and in particular my closest (girl) friends,” Nacho Cano of bedroom project Twin Cabins told the Reader last September.

“I allow them into my life and I let them get close. Over time, like any other, I begin to romanticize what it would be like to be with this friend. I feel great frustration when these feelings arise because though I would like to indulge in my emotions, friendships always come first. So my music became an exploration at this frustration with a very particular kind of romance, one that didn’t exist. The songs became a narrative for a romance that would likely never happen. Yet the song allows me to feel that emotion as it is truly mine and somehow that seems like it is enough for me.”

It may sound like a voiceover from a Michael Cera movie, but when Cano’s guileless sense of chivalry is filtered through cheesy ‘80s drums, ‘verby vox, and beach-toned guitar, the resulting dream pop musings are nothing short of blissful.


“The reason I wanted to explore the 80’s vibes are because it was a time that I was never a part of. I can’t be nostalgic of encounters and years that I never really had. So if I wanted to be true to my romantic fantasies and pains, I wanted to conjure a theme of a nostalgia that could never be true.”

The approach works, and sometimes, when my weltschmerz starts acting up and the world becomes snaggletoothed and fart-flavored, Cano’s teenage Quixote serenade breathes a glimmer of magic back into the mudanity.

The meta-sentiment of nostalgia for Cano’s nostalgia for something that never happened is simple soul syrup, so try a sizzip of his new track, “With Benefits.”

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