Twin Shadow Eclipse

Just yesterday, Twin Shadow’s George Lewis, Jr. previewed his forthcoming third studio LP with the seductive new song “Turn Me Up”. Now, he’s revealed full details of the album: Entitled Eclipse, the follow-up to 2012’s Confess will be released on March 17th via Warner Bros. Records.

To coincide with today’s announcement, the synthpop auteur has revealed the corresponding video for “Turn Me Up”. The sleek black and white clip was created by Alex Tulvey and Milan Zrnic. Watch it below.

In an issued statement, Lewis said of the song, “I think it’s important to let people take what they need from songs instead of explaining too much about what they mean for me personally. But my friends keep asking, ‘Turn me up’ – what’s that mean? I keep saying, ‘Take more from me. Ask more of me. Give me more back. Stop fighting against the things you want the most.'”

01 Flatliners
02 When The Lights Turn Out
03 To The Top
04 Alone Feat. Lily Elise
05 Eclipse
06 Turn Me Up
07 I’m Ready
08 Old Love/New Love Feat. D’Angelo Lacy
09 Half Life
10 Watch Me Go
11 Locked & Loaded

My whole world seemed to come apart during the recording and touring of my first two albums. It seemed to break off into two large chunks; one relating to self awareness and confidence and the other being a desire to seek out the best in people around me. They began to drift slowly away from each other. Balancing the two became an almost impossible task and I feared having to choose one or the other.

Before the start of the recording of Eclipse I felt these things pull even further away, and in thinking I had lost both, I felt a deep solitude. When I began recording in the Hollywood Forever Cemetery (where I built my studio), I forgot about these things and focused only on what was in front of me: practical things, mundane things, things that simply kept me busy and not bored.

Without realizing it during this period, the things I lost hold of began to move towards each other again. Through this shift many things began to re-establish themselves; including loving relationships, a strength in the dynamic between my mother & I, as well as energetic states of mind and general excitement to play music. Things were aligned again without me trying to control them.