Here’s Fort Lean with their game faces on.

Twin Shadow is the brain trust of George Lewis Jr., who grew up in the Dominican Republic. His band churns out catchy, Cure-influenced synth-pop – you should check out their sounds here.

Twin Shadow recorded their debut album, Forget, back in 2010, and the assistant engineer happened to be a bassist named Jake Aron, who happens to play in a band called Fort Lean. If you don’t know them, Fort Lean makes emotive indie-pop with a big fat heart slapped on its sleeve. Twin Shadow became fast friends with Jake, and now he’s got a new remix from Twin Shadow’s keyboardist Wynne Bennet, who also goes by the name of DJ Lee Cooper. It’s an eighties-inspired dark cavern club banger, and you can check it out right here:

You can check out Fort Lean on tour through May – they’ll be linking up with We Were Promised Jetpacks for some shows in the US and Canada. Here are the dates:

4/24 – Boston, MA – Paradise

4/25 – Portland, ME – Space

4/26 – Montreal, QC – Il Motore

4/27 – Toronto, ON – Lee’s Palace

4/28 – Ann Arbor, MI – The Blind Pig

4/29 – Columbus, OH – Outland on Liberty

4/30 – Akron, OH – Musica

5/2 – Washington, DC – Black Cat

5/3 – New York, NY – Bowery Ballroom

5/4 – Brooklyn, NY – Music Hall of Williamsburg

5/5 – Philadelphia, PA – Union Transfer