Placebo — Twin Demons (2)

“Twin Demons, the original germination of Twin Demons started in a yoga class, and this yoga teacher said to me, ‘your monkey mind is drunk and bitten by a scorpion and possessed by demons’ and said, it’s an old, old Hindu or Buddhist koan or saying and it just sort of that just landed. It just landed so solidly in my head. And so its lyrics that I had earmarked for a very, very long time and finally, I got the opportunity to use them. My first yoga-inspired song about addiction, naturally, the twin demons of addiction and depression.As we were sort of getting more and more into our vintage synthesizers and kind of, you know, losing ourselves in a kind of psychedelic synth universe, we were way aware that we couldn’t really sort of lose the rock on this album and so we were kind of concerned that there had to be a good balance and Twin Demons, you know, really kind of provides, you know, a very strong rock anchor within this record and sort of enables us to be more experimental and more out there in other places.”

                                       — Brian Molko