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Down In Heaven: 10th Anniversary Edition is in record stores today!

Taking in the reunion shows in Chicago this past week reaffirmed everything that first made us fall in love with Twin Peaks. No band commands attention, or fills a room with joy, quite like this one.

At Thalia, it was striking how few phones dotted the crowd. It felt like everyone was in agreement that this wasn’t an experience that should be mediated by a screen. The crowd was present, because this band is uniquely present. Twin Peaks poured every ounce of themselves into these shows. They booked them themselves. Set up the livestreams themselves. Had their friends run the live visuals. Make the merch, sing & play. Then a different, hand-picked opener joined them each night before Peaks tore through a different set, each littered with crowd pleasers and deep cuts (that still pleased the crowd).

It felt radical. In a world of AI garbage (hi, UMG) and social media loneliness, Twin Peaks is “real people” music. Loving this band means being part of a community of actual human beings, all connected to the dudes on stage and each other and a canon of rock music that stretches back decades and decades.

They called the final Friday night show (added at the last minute & sold out in mere hours) “The Angel’s Share,” a coinage born during the making of the record about how people who helped with a specific task got a little something extra, something special just for them. In 2016 I don’t think anyone knew how apt that phrase would become. Twin Peaks *is* an angel’s share for everyone who still bothers to care about art being real and palpable and living, loud on stage, brazenly authentic, and fierce in its protection and nurturing of a human community. The people who love this band DESERVE this band. And vice versa.

We’re proud they trusted us to release this music. And, in the afterglow of eight, errr NINE, sold out nights at Thalia Hall, we hope you’ll join us today in celebrating this beautiful record from 2016, Down In Heaven, out again today on a brand new parchment re-issue pressing with two limited edition flexi discs. Grab it from your local record store or Bandcamp.