Queer pop duo TWINKIDS stream seven-track EP ahead of release

The queer pop duo - Tokyo-born Gene Fukui and Floridean Matt Young, who both studied at Oberlin College and The Conservatory of Music (Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Mars Volta) - weave a "coming of age narrative" through the short-player's seven songs. Meshing bright synth pop hooks, dreamy vocal sinews, and rampaging dance beats into one addictive neon-lit haze.

Fukui and Young take their EP's title from the "Japanese genre of gay romance manga, primarily written by women for women."

"We wanted to reclaim the term 'Boys Love' for ourselves, so it didn't feel like something weird or negative anymore, which I know we've both experienced," the pair explain. "Instead, we wanted to cast Boys Love as something tender and complex, beautiful with big highs and quiet lows."

"All the songs on Boys Love were written during a really unstable time in our lives, right after we moved to Los Angeles," TWINKIDS continue of the release. "They’re all about the anxieties of being young, gay, in love, with no sense of self. I think you can hear that tension in the production too. Its all very high contrast in the way the songs suddenly open up just to tighten or close in later."

Check out the EP below.