Twin Phase: Marcus Assenmacher Steps Out from the Shadows on 'One Way Out'

There is a particular kind of artist who spends years making everyone else sound better before they finally make themselves heard. Marcus Assenmacher is one of them, and Twin Phase, his Detroit-based indie-pop project, is what happens when someone who has spent a career in other people's studios decides the next record is going to be his.

'One Way Out', out 29th May, is the second single under the Twin Phase name and it arrives with the ease of someone who has been doing this a long time, just not like this. Built on programmed drums layered with live guitar, bass, synthesisers, and vocals, written, produced, recorded, and mixed entirely by Assenmacher at SayHeySounds, the track lands somewhere between the dance floor and the confessional booth, which is precisely where the best nu-disco and alternative R&B has always lived. Roosevelt, Chromeo, Jamiroquai. The lineage is clear. The execution is Assenmacher's own.

The emotional territory is less comfortable than the production suggests. "It's about reaching a point in a relationship where you realise the only path forward is to be honest with yourself and take a leap into the unknown," he explains. "The tension between holding on to what feels familiar and accepting that real growth often requires letting go." Vulnerability dressed in something you can't help but move to. It is, as a creative challenge, harder than it looks.

Assenmacher has the credentials to make it look easy. A Heritage Guitars endorsement at 17. NYU. Years at Beat360 Studios collaborating with Teddy Geiger, Lauv, Grammy-winning producer Ricky Reed, and Sammy Adams. Debut single 'Wired The Same' landing 27 confirmed placements and a 27% curator acceptance rate, numbers that suggest an audience already paying attention.

A debut album is coming. On this evidence, it will be worth the wait. 'One Way Out' is out now.