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Twin Shadow writes a novel
By CMU Editorial | Published on Monday 6 August 2012
Twin Shadow’s George Lewis Jr – who just released his sophomore LP ‘Confess’ – has also been busy of late co-writing a novel entitled ‘The Night Of The Silver Sun’ with his “good friend” Eric Green.
Pitchfork quotes Lewis Jr as saying this of the video for new Twin Shadow single ‘Five Seconds’, which also acts as a preface to the book: “Is about a motorcycle gang in the future. The video is the prologue to the story, and it’s about friendship, in a way; two black motorcyclists who are fighting the good fight”.
The novel hasn’t yet been given a publication date, but you can read an extract from it here. That, or behold Lewis Jr’s impressive motorbike stunts in that ‘Five Seconds’ video:
