Twilight Sad - Fourteen Autumns and Fifteen Winters
by Dixie Ernill
published: 20 / 5 / 2007
Label:
Fat Cat Records
Format: CD
intro
Epic and often dark debut album from fine new Scottish band, the Twilight Sad, who draw comparisions with the National
If the National had been from Scotland, rather than America, they would have sounded like the Twilight Sad. Both groups share the same ability to drag up muscular sound-scapes depicting taut, twisted emotions. Sometimes epic, sometimes dark but strangely inviting, like a post storm sea. The difference being that, due to singer James Graham's Glasgee tones, the Twilight Sad are as Scottish as the Proclaimers, haggis, World Cup heartache or indeed Scotland. This is no bad thing mind, as it adds a fine edge to some of the most obtuse lyrics to some of the most obtuse song titles this side of a drunk’s barely audible mutterings. A triangle of the same name would be embarrassed; ‘Talking With Fireworks/Here, It Never Snowed’ or ‘That Summer, At Home I Had Become The Invisible Boy’ being perfect cases in point. This really, however, doesn’t matter a jot when the output is this good. Fine bands such as Interpol and the Walkmen should be jealous, that whilst not too dis-similar to The Twilight Sad, they rarely capture the greatness of the aforementioned ‘That Summer, At Home I Had Become The Invisible Boy’, ‘Mapped By What Surrounded Them’ or ‘Cold Days From The Birdhouse’. Already embraced by the Americans (following their recent South by Southwest festival), it’s time us Brits took notice.
Track Listing:-
1 Cold Days From The Birdhouse2 That Summer, At Home I Had Become The Invisible Boy
3 Walking For Two Hours
4 Last Year's Rain Didn't Fall Quite so Hard
5 Talking with Fireworks / Here, It Never Snowed
6 Mapped by What Surrounded Them
7 And She Would Darken The Memory
8 I'm Taking the Train Home
9 Fourteen Autumns and Fifteen Winters
Label Links:-
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interviews |
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Interview (2012) |
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| John Clarkson speaks to James Graham from brooding Scottish rock band the Twlight Sad about his band's post-punk influenced third album, No One Can Ever Know’ |
| Interview (2008) |
live reviews |
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Richmond Park, Glasgow, 30/8/2014 |
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| At the chaotic Last Big Weekend Festival in Glasgow, Tony Gaughan watches brooding Scottish post-rockers the Twilight Sad play a short but intense and brilliant gig |
| Ruby Lounge, Manchester, 10/2/2012 |
| Ruby Lounge, Manchester, 23/10/2009 |
| Bongo Club, Edinburgh, 15/6/2008 |
| Cabaret Voltaire, Edinburgh, 29/11/2007 |
photography |
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Photoscapes (2014) |
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| Darren Aston takes photographs of Scottish post-punk act the Twilight Sad at the East Village Arts Club in Liverpool |
reviews |
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Forget the Night Ahead (2009) |
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| Dark and enigmatic, but evocative second album from much acclaimed Scottish-based post rockers, the Twilight Sad |
| Here It Snowed. Afterwards It Did (2008) |
| And She Would Darken the Memory (2007) |
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