Alice Teeple
Twin Tribes didn’t crawl out of Texas in 2017…they moonwalked through a fog machine wearing all black, and immediately started turning heads in the goth club. Luis Navarro and Joel Niño Jr. are synth-slinging wizards who mix post-punk gloom with enough reverb to haunt a cathedral.
Think of their music as a dance party at a vampire’s house: equal parts spooky and sweet, with beats that make you sway while you question the meaning of life. With Navarro’s brooding vocals and Niño’s icy guitar licks, they’ve built a cult following from Brownsville to Berlin. And it’s not hard to see why. Twin Tribes sound like what would happen if The Cure made out with a drum machine in a cemetery: dramatic, romantic, and ready for the afterparty.
Their secret weapon? They make feeling sad look like a damn good time.
Twin Tribes hit Warsaw in Brooklyn like a fog machine in overdrive: part goth prom, part séance, all business. As part of their Dark Skies tour with Chameleons and Vandal Moon, the Texas duo leaned into their vampire disco mood and gave the crowd exactly what they came for: lace, leather, and songs that sound like they were written in a candlelit crypt.
They brought out the big ones: “Fantasmas,” “Cauldron of Thorns,” and “Shadows,” each track soaked in enough occult references and romantic doom to make Edgar Allan Poe blush in his boots. Think Clan of Xymox slow-dancing with Bauhaus at a black mass, and you’re somewhere close. But they peppered in a few newer cuts too, flexing the kind of confidence that comes from being goth royalty in the making.
By the end of the night, Warsaw wasn’t a club. It was a dark cathedral, and Twin Tribes were the high priests, leading their congregation in a chorus of beautifully bummed-out bliss.
Navarro and Niño push past genre confines to create music that feels both timeless and tantalizingly modern. Twin Tribes stand firmly at goth’s bleeding edge; poised, poignant, endlessly poetic.
Here is the average set list for Twin Tribes on this tour:
- The Path to Antares
- Shadows
- Another Life
- Sanctuary
- Upir
- Obsidian
- Lobo-hombre en París
- Paradox
- Cauldron of Thorns
- Eternal
- Tren al sur
- Sangre de oro
- The River
- Fantasmas
- Heart & Feather
Encore:
- Monolith
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