| Sunken | |
| Type: | studio |
| Artist: | Twin Peaks |
| Cover: | Sunken_Twin_Peaks.jpg |
| Studio: | Heartland House |
| Label: | Autumn Tone |
| Producer: | Twin Peaks |
| Next Title: | Wild Onion |
| Next Year: | 2014 |
Sunken is the debut studio album by Twin Peaks, released on July 9, 2013, on Autumn Tone Records. The album was recorded in James' basement using "a crappy iMac from 2004, a broken digital mixer, and a digital recording studio from the '90s." The title of the album comes from Sunken Gardens Park, a park in Chicago where the band used to drink as teenagers.
The success of the album gave the group immediate critical recognition and launched them into the forefront of an emerging DIY scene in Chicago.[1] Most of the band members were attending Evergreen State College but soon dropped out to pursue their music career.[2]
Northern Transmission says, "you're thrown back to the 1960s to a place where guys wore leather jackets and crooned into microphones in a smoky juke joint." According to Pitchfork: "Sunken presents itself initially as an over-enthusiastic tumble, an overgrown lab puppy licking your face. They are kid-bro Smith Westerns, figuratively and literally. But Sunken hints at more than that."[3]
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