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Over the past year 2:54 - sister duo Colette and Hannah Thurlow - have established themselves as one of 2012's most important breakthrough UK bands. Recorded mostly be Mercury-winning producer Rob Ellis, and all mixed by the legendary Alan Moulder, their debut album collects together a cohesive and captivating selection of highlights from their already burgeoning catalogue. The ten songs that together make up 2:54 are ripe with danger and beauty. This is a record that thrums with life, signaled immediately with the gale-force opener, "Revolving," a real bittersweet blizzard. From then on the sisters Thurlow proceed to mine their own distinctive brand of haunted, freaked grooves and cloud-bursting melody, channeling love, loss and longing to spellbinding effect. Over the course of its ten tracks, it becomes clear that this is a rarefied, captivating affair, a beautifully sustained exercise in mood and tension that almost feels in a league and scene of its own. It's a bewitching snapshot of 2:54 thus far and also a glimpse of the heady future that awaits them.