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The Twilight Sad

Fourteen Autumns & Fifteen Winters - 2022 Reissue

    ‘Fourteen Autumns…’ is a complete record, the nine tracks working together to create a strong narrative flow. Deceptively simple songs are rendered transcendent. Bleached, overdriven guitars consistently ride a line between ambient and coruscating, working in tandem with an articulate, at times tumultuous rhythm section, forever poised between tension and release. Augmented by piano and more frequently accordion, which provide the songs with a dramatic swoon, The Twilight Sad purvey an awestruck, ragged sentimentality. Lyrically suggestive and metaphorical, their songs give glimpses of bitter experience and romantic failure, their songs at times verging on the anthemic or celebrative, yet firmly rooted in the familiar, often unsaid hurt behind day to day events.

    TRACK LISTING

    Side A
    1. Cold Days From The Birdhouse
    2. That Summer, At Home I Had Become The Invisible Boy
    3. Walking For Two Hours
    4. Last Year’s Rain Didn’t Fall So Hard
    Side B
    1. Talking With Fireworks / Here, It Never Snowed
    2. Mapped By What Surrounded Them
    3. And She Would Darken The Memory
    4. I’m Taking The Train Home
    5. Fourteen Autumns & Fifteen Winters

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    No One Can Ever Know - 2022 Reissue

      The Twilight Sad’s third full-length, No One Can Ever Know, marks a sonic shift for the band. Freshly inspired by a listening diet of Cabaret Voltaire, Can, Liars, Magazine, Autechre, and Public Image Limited, the band turn to a dark, synth-heavy sound for No One Can Ever Know; the resulting LP shares thematic and sonic space with the most innovative offerings from Depeche Mode, The Cure, or even Nine Inch Nails. “We wanted to be a lot more spontaneous, get outside our comfort zone - not to fall back into repeating what we’ve done previously,” explains guitarist Andy MacFarlane. “So we moved to London for a month to record at The Pool and got Andrew Weatherall involved to bounce ideas off and to generally reassure us of the direction we were already progressing in – toward a sparser sound, with a colder, slightly militant feel.”

      TRACK LISTING

      Side A
      1. Alphabet
      2. Dead City
      Side B
      3. Sick
      4. Don’t Move
      Side C
      5. Nil
      6. Don’t Look At Me
      7. Not Sleeping
      Side D
      8. Another Bed
      9. Kill It In The Morning

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      Killed My Parents And Hit The Road

        The Twilight Sad release ‘Killed My Parents And Hit The Road’ now on vinyl for the first time.

        With the majority of tracks mixed and mastered by Iain Cook of Aerogramme, ‘Killed My Parents And Hit The Road’ encompasses the bands’ bare, unfeigned use of melancholy with rousing, epic intensity, never straying too far from hitting sentimental nerves. Throughout the record, melodies stagger between feedback-laden instrumentals and rich, seemingly effortless acoustic ballads, each accented by Graham’s strong Scottish tones, creating a collection of songs that are as intriguing as they are engulfing. Alongside their own tracks, the band have chosen to cover songs by Joy Division (‘Twenty Four Hours’), Yeah Yeah Yeahs (‘Modern Romance’) and The Smiths (‘Half A Person’), providing greater scope into the tracks’ pensive and wistful subjects, whilst retaining the stirring and engaging qualities of the originals.

        TRACK LISTING

        Side A
        1. Walking For Two Hours
        2. That Summer, At Home I Had Become The Invisible Boy
        3. Untitled #28
        4. Cold Days From The Birdhouse
        5. And She Would Darken The Memory

        Side B
        1. Twenty Four Hours
        2. The Weather Is Bad
        3. Half A Person
        4. Untitled #27
        5. Modern Romance
        6. I Was Hoping Winter Was Over

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        It Won't Be Like This All The Time

          From their unassuming origins as a group of school friends drawn together by a shared passion for music to the global touring force (supporting The Cure and Editors at arenas and stadiums), they have quietly become, The Twilight Sad’s ascent has been forged the old way with grit, graft and four exceptional studio albums. Now signed to Mogwai’s Rock Action Records, the bands fifth album does not disappoint and will certainly not disappoint fans of their previous works. It will also appeal to fans of The Cure, Frighten Rabbits, The National, Interpol and Editors.

          TRACK LISTING

          1 [10 Good Reasons For Modern Drugs]
          2 Shooting Dennis Hopper Shooting
          3 The Arbor
          4 VTr
          5 Sunday Day13
          6 I/m Not Here [missing Face]
          7 Auge/Maschine
          8 Keep It All To Myself
          9 Girl Chewing Gum
          10 Let/s Get Lost
          11 Videograms

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          Òran Mór Session

            Almost a year since the release of their acclaimed fourth album Nobody Wants To Be Here and Nobody Wants To Leave, Scotland’s The Twilight Sad return with the Òran Mór Session LP: a collection of reworked, stripped-back versions of tracks from the album, b-sides and a cover of Arthur Russell’s ‘I Couldn’t Say It To Your Face’.

            The sessions act as something of a means to recap and reflect on what’s been a whirlwind past year for the band, with Nobody Wants To Be Here and Nobody Wants To Leave earning rave reviews from publications including The Sunday Times, The Quietus and Q, alongside topping Drowned in Sound’s best albums of 2014 and earning a rare perfect ten from the site, finishing second in The Skinny’s list, third in Popmatters’ indie rock albums of the year and topping Any Decent Music’s Scottish albums of the year.

            "It’s not until you assemble – no, grow, because this is nothing if not organic – the whole thing, that the jaw-dropping brilliance of the album reveals itself." - Drowned in Sound (10/10)

            "Simple but effective, the lyrics are bleak, bitter phrases of existential loneliness and torment. His emotion hits just as potently throughout." - NME (8/10)

            "The group's fourth LP more than justifies [their] ascension. Where there were youthful, wayward meanderings, Graham has emerged a man, exorcising the sorrows of lessons learnt along the way." - The Quietus

            TRACK LISTING

            1: Nobody Wants To Be Here And Nobody Wants To Leave
            2: Last January
            3: It Never Was The Same
            4: Pills I Swallow
            5: I Could Give You All That You Don't Want
            6: Drown So I Can Watch
            7: The Airport
            8: Leave The House
            9: I Couldn't Say It To Your Face


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