Dave Dobbyn in Concert

I needed to come back, and I needed to soak it up [...] so we head back to New Zealand, and suddenly all these doors opened up.

– Dave Dobbyn on returning home and starting Twist, in documentary Homegrown Profiles: Dave Dobbyn

Full of strange and slightly disconcerting sonic effects [...] as well as curious soundbeds on which Dobbyn’s beautiful ballads such as Naked Flame and Betrayal lay, this was an album that beguiled the ears but also touched the heart.

– Graham Reid writes about the Twist album, on his website Elsewhere

there's a black blue front - stole the west horizon / under ocean song hear the tolling bell / on the seventh wave rides my aspirations / they will break, for sure, all my dreams to tell

– Lyrics from track It Dawned on Me