Vinyl version of Two Is Not A Number, pressed on transparent blue vinyl. All vinyl orders come with a Fantastic sticker.
A1 I Was First
A2 Sisters at Odds
A3 Land of Pleasure Hi Fi
A4 Master & Disciple
B1 Silver Moon Dial
B2 Twins Can't Love
B3 From Above
B4 All of This Is Resolved
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Fantastic Twins T-shirt (long sleeve)
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Very limited edition of Fantastic Twins tees with iconic design by Fons Hickmann. Screen printed on Gildan Hammer T-shirt long sleeve, black cotton. Comes with a sticker and a signed postcard. The graphic on the postcard was generated from the same animation as the one used to create the album artwork but here the motion was stopped at exactly 22 seconds. Shipping will start on December 14.
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Bundle Vinyl Two Is Not a Number + Tshirt short sleeve
Bundle vinyl LP of Two Is Not a Number + very limited edition of Fantastic Twins tee with iconic design by Fons Hickmann. Screen printed on Gildan Hammer T-shirt short sleeve, black cotton. Comes with a sticker and a signed postcard. The graphic on the postcard was generated from the same animation as the one used to create the album artwork but here the motion was stopped at exactly 22 seconds. Shipping will start on December 14.
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Fantastic Twins T-shirt (short sleeve)
T-Shirt/Shirt
Very limited edition of Fantastic Twins tees with iconic design by Fons Hickmann. Screen printed on Gildan Hammer T-shirt long sleeve, black cotton. Comes with a sticker and a signed postcard. The graphic on the postcard was generated from the same animation as the one used to create the album artwork but here the motion was stopped at exactly 22 seconds. Shipping will start on December 14.
Sold Out
Bundle Two Is Not a Number vinyl + long sleeve tshirt
Bundle vinyl LP of Two Is Not a Number + very limited edition of Fantastic Twins tee with iconic design by Fons Hickmann. Screen printed on Gildan Hammer T-shirt long sleeve, black cotton. Comes with a sticker and a signed postcard. The graphic on the postcard was generated from the same animation as the one used to create the album artwork but here the motion was stopped at exactly 22 seconds. Shipping will start on December 14.
Something like another
Couple, doppelgänger
Identical combination
Something like another
I’ve been calling ringer
Impossible conversation
They share 100% of their DNA
Their twinness is at the very core of who they are
They have fought against it at different times of their lives
Identical combination
Impossible conversation
They are so tied
What if they
What if they
cannot live separate lives?
They are so tired
Through the walls
Through the walls
I hear them cry
I hear them cry
They so tied
They’re so tired
Twins can’t love
Twins can’t love
Anybody else
Fantastic Twins, the ongoing project of Julienne Dessagne, is a sonic exploration of dual characters born from one distinct perspective. A producer, songwriter, and acclaimed live performer, Dessagne has spent the last decade sculpting a unique world.
On an ambitious new album entitled ‘Two Is Not a Number’, Dessagne immerses herself more fully than ever in the concept that inspired her artist name, exploring the entwined lives and fates of her imaginary twins, their schizophrenic dreams, small dramas, and big tragedies - a metaphor for our own psyche, our inner conflicts, and our relationship to others and otherness.
These musings on the psychological, emotional, biological, and metaphysical qualities of Twins are expressed with assured clarity, using a palate of icy deep techno, eerie atmospheric soundtracks, tranced-out dark wave, and synth pop-noir. Whether through airborne dancefloor ascension, diamond hard rhythms, electronic thundercracks, or empathy drenched vocals and the palpable sense of unease, this standout album brings Dessagne’s powerful, affecting art into sharp focus.
'I Was First' takes listeners to the Fantastic Twins’ origin, a vocal transmission from within a sonic womb, as our protagonists prepare to emerge. 'Sisters at Odds' sees our siblings emerge incongruous and freshly awoken to life’s absurdities in slow-motion. Suspensefully, the percussive heartbeat of Land of 'Pleasure Hi Fi' wrings tension from numerology, blossoming into a scorched industrial ballet, a mirage of multiplicity.
Following the gothic connection of 'Master & Disciple', 'Silver Moon Dial' incants a trance-like state that captures the physical energy of Dessagne’s live show, as Fantastic Twins take advantage of ‘putting the moon on speed dial.’ Euphoria soon splinters into tragedy with 'Twins Can’t Love', extracting unexpected melody and melancholy in brittle, IDM tinged electronics, beautifully tangled with Dessagne’s longing intonations.
'From Above' sees Dessagne’s vocals once again shift into a new form for a haunting interpretation of something approaching a ballad, echoing around a chamber from which the Twins have seemingly disappeared. Ultimately 'All of This is Resolved', both in title and form, within this album’s cathartic yet uneasy conclusion. Dessagne sends the siblings home at last... But what will we find if we follow?
credits
released October 13, 2023
Written, performed and produced by Julienne Dessagne (Fantastic Twins)
Additional production and mix by Superpitcher at In The Sky Studios
Mastered by Hans-Jörg Frage at Deinklang
C & P House Of Slessor, 2023
Published by Passé Publishing
*With the exception of All Of This Is Resolved excerpts of text taken from "Bight Of The Twin" (2016), a film by Hazel Hill McCarthy with Genesis Breyer P-Orridge
Artwork by Fons Hickmann
Supported by Initiative Musik gGmbH with project funds from the Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and Media
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