[AMERICANA] I wouldn't be surprised to learn that Laurie and Katelyn Shook spoke their own secret twin language while growing up in Sandpoint, Idaho; listening to the Shook Twins' music feels like eavesdropping on a private conversation in a vernacular that's foreign yet strangely familiar. Case in point, their song "Long Time," which sets up a trad-folk backdrop of earnestly strummed and plucked mando and banjo, but abruptly finds them singing about microchips and "blue light-bulb eyes." "Time to Swim" incorporates beats behind their spooky sibling harmonies like a rustic Portishead. Their songs are witty and well-built, the performances poised, the production adventurous. Recently transplanted to Portland, Shook Twins are the most exciting local folk act I've heard in ages. Strike that word "local" and the sentiment still stands.

Where: Mississippi Studios
Phone: 288-3895
Address: 3939 N Mississippi Ave.
Website: www.mississippistudios.com