Vancouver Indie Pop-Rock Artist Mud Cwaine Shares New Single + Video, “TWIN LAKES”
Vancouver drag performer and indie pop-rock musician Mud Cwaine unveils their deeply private new single and video, “Twin Lakes,” the second launch from their forthcoming album of the identical identify, due later this yr.
Written by Mud and produced by Josh Eastman (Kylie V, Turunesh), “Twin Lakes” pulses with lo-fi urgency and uncooked emotion. The music channels the isolation of Mud’s rural upbringing within the Kootenays – a spot recognized domestically as Twin Lakes – and the difficult grief following the sudden passing of their father in 2020.
“I wrote this music about rising up in an remoted neighborhood, and the ache of being additional remoted from the individuals inside it,” mentioned Mud. “I spotted that in demise, my father had bypassed any probability to be held accountable for the issues he put me via. This music imagines what it may need been wish to lastly say what wanted to be mentioned.”
The result’s a cathartic and hauntingly trustworthy anthem, rooted in trauma however lit with the defiant spark of therapeutic.
“‘I don’t wish to return’ was the core feeling,” Mud explains. “Josh constructed a beat that echoed via the chest – such as you’re sitting alone by the lakes, reckoning with every part that made you.”
The putting video, directed by Luke Beach Brown, was filmed on the Britannia Mine Museum, pairing the music’s emotional depth with a moody, industrial backdrop that underscores the burden of the story.
Following the June launch of their electrical first single “Little Plans” – a joyful T4T synth-pop love music – “Twin Lakes” exhibits the opposite facet of Mud’s forthcoming report: intimate, complicated, and fearless in its vulnerability. The monitor marks the start of an album-long journey again to the place that formed them – one which’s as a lot about self-love as it’s survival.
With almost a decade of expertise, Mud Cwaine has turn out to be a fixture in Vancouver’s drag and music scenes, mixing moody pop-rock textures with uncooked, confessional songwriting they name “nostalgia pop-rock navel gaze.” Their work has earned reward from Exclaim!, The Jann Arden Podcast, and The Georgia Straight, which named them a Vancouver Local Hero in 2024. They’ve shared phases with Resort Mira and Younger Buddy, and have bought out headline exhibits throughout Canada.