Let’s Eat Grandma

★★★ Two Ribbons TRANSGRESSIVE. CD/DL/LP

Norwich duo’s deeply heartfelt third album. Childhood friends Rosa Walton and Jenny Hollingworth became bandmates at 13/14 years old and then startlingly accomplished and adventurous album debutantes at 16/17 with I, Gemini’s self-described “experimental sludge pop.” Follow-up I’m All Ears’ mix of electronica and piano ballads underpinned their anxieties as the world sped up around them, a theme which Two

Ribbons extends as a dialogue between two friends almost inevitably needing space from each other. The first half of the album is techno-pop, finely balancing euphoria and heartache. In Happy New Year, Rosa sings: “And nothing that was broken can touch how much I care for you/Because you know you’ll always be my best friend.” The subsequent ballads’ more fragile intensity ends with the title track. “Like two ribbons, still woven although we are fraying,” sings Jenny, “I can only be your best friend/And hope that that’s enough/But I know that’s not enough.”