PREMIERE: See Red on the Dance Floor With Twin Wave's Hypnotic "Matador"

Photo by Andrew Segreti

If you're still recovering from the dance rock fatigue of the past few years, Brooklyn trio Twin Wave are here to kick your butt back on the dance floor. The group offers up hip-shaking rhythms and melodies balanced by judicious use of synths that eschew New Wave cheese.

Consider "Matador," the lead single off of their forthcoming EP Pour Out the Dark, recorded at Brooklyn's Mission Sound under the guise of Tommy Eichmann (Alex Winston). The tune plays like a more cerebral love letter to Duran Duran, swapping in lyrics inspired by Hemingway's bullfighting-as-art passages in "The Sun Also Rises" for the genre's tired go-tos of hedonism and bombast.

“The idea of bullfighting as an art form rather than a sport immediately struck me," says frontman Nick Williams. "Seeing beauty and art and being mesmerized by that kind of exhibited violence stayed with me ever since, and it was the first thing that came into my head after Sarik and Maxx first wrote the guitar riff that leads the track.”

Matador has more going on beneath its melodic surface, with rhythmic interplay that rewards repeat listens. That said, don't overthink it—press play and get to boogieing below.

Twin Wave will play a single release show on Friday April 15 at Baby's All Right.

Andrea Domanick is the West Coast Editor of Noisey. Follow her on Twitter.