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No Place Like Home
No Place Like Home

t’s been nine years since the release of their debut EP, and Twin Atlantic have an ex-
Itraordinary career to look back on — from headlining the SSE Arena in Glasgow to
reaching No. 6 in the UK music charts, the Scottish lads have seen a fair share of success.
So what do you do when you’ve achieved things beyond your wildest imagination? Well,
you go home. ‘GLA’ sees Twin Atlantic return to their roots, and we got to sit down with
lead guitarist Barry McKenna and bassist Ross McNae to talk about Glasgow, staying pos-
itive on tough days and which member of the band best resembles an elephant.

think right back in the beginning of our band, have taken risks again and compares it to those early music that is raw and more about instinct than any-
“Iwe were quite risky…” Ross tells Black Vel- days. “I think this album is the riskiest thing we’ve thing.”
vet. “We were just kind of doing whatever we wanted, ever done because obviously we’ve been on that jour- 2014’s ‘Great Divide’ saw chart-topping success,
and we’re from Scotland, Sam was singing in a Scot- ney and, in terms of the synergy between the way we and Ross and his bandmates could have easily
tish accent and it was crazy like it was way, way more started the band and the sound that we’ve got now, played it safe and written a carbon copy, but Barry
angular than what it became on ‘Free’ or ‘Great Di- we’re kind of closer back to that point than we’ve ever tells us that they felt inspired to try something differ-
vide’ and whatnot. been before. Maybe not necessarily in the exact ent. “We feel like on ‘Great Divide’ we’d gone as far
With their new album, ‘GLA’, Ross thinks they sound of it, but in the way that we’re back to making as we could in that direction, in terms of Sam trying

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