Music Press from “around the world ”
on our 5th album “ Time Sips Away”
Via Nocturna, Portugal, 2024
Time Slips Away (MYSTIC TWANGERS)
Time Slips Away , the latest album by Mystic Twangers , led by AG Twanger ( aka Andy Glanzman ), is a work that mixes several influences of Americana pop-rock , presenting a rich and diverse sound. But don't be disappointed by the initial themes. In fact, Time Slips Away has much more to offer than what is presented in its opening. With 13 tracks, this work presents a musical journey that ranges from emotional ballads to energetic rock , passing through progressive folk , country pop and even reggae and blues . Songs such as Time Out , Hallway Mirror , Baby Don't Tell Me , Haybo Traveller , Ruby Red and Do You Know How It Feels show the band's versatility and AG Twanger 's ability to capture emotions, reflecting the band's maturity and evolution over the years.
Roots Time, Halen, Belgium, 2024
Time Slips Away
“Time Slips Away” is the title of a thirteen-song record by American singer-songwriter A.G. Twangers, who, under the pseudonym Mystic Twangers, is their 5th album of muti-genre original music.
In addition to singing and writing the songs, A.G. played guitar and bass throughout the album. His good friend Rob Friedman took on the role of producer and played drums, keyboards, pedal steel guitar and lap steel guitar. The female harmony vocals on the album were sung by Dana Brooke.
The album title track “Time Slips Away” is an up-tempo number, followed by some mid-tempo country songs like “Last Call”, “Hallway Mirror”, “Baby Don’t Tell Me” and the sensitive ballad “Do You Know How It Feels”.
This eclectic album also features songs like "Two Ragged Drifters", "Another Fallen Hero"" and "Ruby Red" as well as country pop songs like "Never Will" and “I Won't Give Up". In addition the album features an energetic rock song "Time Out" and even a reggae tune, “The Water's Rising".
The voice of A.G. Twangers and the music style used on this recording recalls our memories of the work of American singer-songwriter Elliott Murphy and that is a great
compliment to this artist.
Rock Times, Trulben, Germany, 2024
Mystic Twangers, Time Slips Away – CD Review
Americana Pop-Rock
"Time Slips Away" is the fifth album by the Mystic Twangers a Americana pop-rock collaboration. The styles of the thirteen songs are expanded to include progressive folk, country pop, high energy rock, traditional blues and roots reggae. Still undiscovered by mainstream audiences, Andy G Twanger is a provocative songwriter and performer.
AG Twanger's true magic lies in his ability to create unforgettable moments.
The album was produced by Rob Friedman who also worked with Dan Zanes Lou Reed, Sheryl Crowe, Natalie Merchant, Suzanne Vega and Jackson Bowne.
We believe the Mystic Twangers, or rather AG Twanger, who wrote all the songs for this album, can work his way out of obscurity with "Time Slips Away".
AG Twanger's singing is worth listening to. The Mystic Twangers serve it up with competence and groove.
Let it Rock, Ontario Canada, 2024
MYSTIC TWANGERS – Time slips Away
Can vast expanses and open spaces be conducive to a sense of urgency as opposed to pensiveness? According to A.G. Twanger, yes; yet the answer which the New York master of Americana gives to such a question is better be perceived on many an existential plane – or plain, if you like. The fifth album of his little ensemble may assess, and access, various aspects of escapism, but these pieces are as down-to-earth as it gets for a reality-based cycle of songs that ride the carpe diem idiom without burdening the listener by grafting complex ideas on alluring tunes. Instead, they shimmer while informing the platter with dreamlike impetus, and should the momentum linger at times, one will find it impossible to get stationary here.
So, despite the titular opener’s first line – “I think I’ll kick my shoes off now” – and its mostly relaxed, albeit upbeat, feel, the record’s welcoming salvo is a robust guitar roll that’s as infectious as the track’s organ-underpinned refrains and its bass-driven skank are, all of which, however fail to prepare the audience for “Last Call” whose solemn lap-steel-laced flow must allow one to imagine Major Tom’s landing in the prairies. There’s no more space oddities amidst these wide swathes of sound, yet “Never Will” offers a delicate heartbreak before the George Floyd-referencing “Time Out” bares Twang’s bluesy anger – a sonic reflection of his lyrical chokehold – and “Hallway Mirror” and “”Do You Know How It Feels” dissolve A.G.’s anguish, the result of a personal loss, in a couple of gentle, acoustically-tinctured serenades. But whereas “I Won’t Give Up” packs an optimistic punch in its crunch, and “The Water’s Rising” punctures the album’s surface with a catchy reggae groove, the hoedown waltz “Ruby Red” and the piano-and-trumpet-splattered “Two Ragged Drifters” opt for patinated sentiments.
Rock News Wire, 2024
MYSTIC TWANGERS – Time slips Away
Mystic Twangers and A.G. Twanger is the stage names of Andy Glanzman and here on his fifth release he sings and plays acoustic guitar and bass while Rob Friedman contributes guitar, drums, keys and pedal and lap steel. The pair have a very full and melodic sound as they perform 13 cuts all penned by Twanger who takes his Americana sound down lots of side roads beginning with the breezy title cut where he sings about mellowing out and not worrying too much about how time is slipping away, instead choosing to live with a "time is on my side" attitude. It's great advice that's given in a memorable way and with a catchy hook. Friedman's steel guitar flavors the understated barroom weeper "Last Call" which examines a failing relationship. "Never Will" is an upbeat country rocker but Mystic Twangers gets uncharacteristically angry on "Time Out," an ominous commentary on America's social ills that name checks George Floyd and what happened to him. Elsewhere "Baby Don't Tell Me” tunes into a classic country sound that'll be familiar to fans of artists like George Jones. "The Water's Rising" flows to a reggae beat and "Two Ragged Drifters" puts the Western in Country & Western. The album finishes with "Do You Know How it Feels," a tender declaration of love featuring just guitar and vocals from Glanzman and harmony vocalist Dana Brooke.
Six Degrees Entertainment, Exclusive Magazine
Ferndale, Michigan, 2024 – Style: Soft Rock
Time Slips Away by the MYSTIC TWANGERS
Them Twangers are head up by Andy G. Twanger, songwriter and chief bottle washer. Is Andy G. Twanger his real name? Well, maybe (or not) but it sure sounds good. Mr. Twanger’s love of music started at his first concert when he saw the Beatles live at New York’s Shea Stadium. Was it the music or was it the girls going crazy no one really knows for sure, but from that day forward all hell broke loose. Now after years of playing music and writing songs we fast forward to today, with the A.G.T. and the Mystic Twangers.
The album opens on the free flowing title track “Time Slips Away “and the languishing “Last Call” and then we get the rockier “Never Will”, the blues soul of Time Out”, and then come the dutiful ballad “Hallway Mirror“ and the upbeat ”I Won’t Give Up”.
Along next is the impassioned “Baby Don’t Tell Me” and the Caribbean-imbibed “The Waters Rising” and they are in turn backed by the veritably shimmering “Two Ragged Drifters”, the fiddle-tastic “Haybo Traveler”, the road worn, Americana vibe of “Another Fallen Hero”, the recording rounding out on the embracing “Ruby Red” and closing on the acoustic feel that threads through the beautifully sculpted “Do You Know How It Feels”.
Saiten Kult, Bebra, Germany, 2024
Time Slips Away by the MYSTIC TWANGERS
~ 2024 (Independent) – Style: Soft Rock
The MYSTIC TWANGERS are a group of musicians who just want to play and have fun. The head of the musical association is guitarist and singer AG Twanger.
The music is melodic and based on the classic songwriter rock styles of the 70s. Apart from percussion and drums, additional guitar support and the occasional backing vocals, AG sang and played guitar and bass.
His fragile singing is reminiscent of Tom Petty and other rock greats. Overall, his music has a positive, calm and sometimes slightly melancholic aura (like in 'Two Ragged Drifters' or the strong 'Another Fallen Hero').
But it can also be a bit rockier, as in 'Time Out' or 'I Won't Give Up'. Country influences ('Haybo Traveler') are also present now and again throughout the album.
I'm probably not the only one who was completely unaware of this musical collective from the USA. The 54 minutes are recommended for fans of the genre. There is substance there.