Sometimes we end up blessed just in time for Christmas.

Earlier this year, the Garden took a step toward eventual global domination—not to mention the cover of Alternative Press —by embarking on a North American tour. Vancouver was lucky enough to be included among the stops, with the band’s founding twins, Fletcher and Wyatt Shears, doing a preshow interview with the Straight in which they talked about everything from old-wave SoCal punk to modelling in Paris, France.

Now, thanks to their sophomore album, Haha, the Shears siblings are about to make their second visit to Vancity in 2015, pulling into the Cobalt this Sunday (December 13). As with their 2013 debut, The Life and Times of a Paperclip, the new outing somehow makes sense of a world where 7 Seconds and Herb Alpert hit the California surf with the Cramps, and Minutemen are bigger than Bruce Springsteen ever was.

As a bonus, the twins are also crazily hot, which—let’s face it—is pretty much a prerequisite for achieving total global domination. For the second time this year, you’ll get the chance to say, “I saw them when…”