One of our favorite groups of all time, the Scottish mope-masters the Twilight Sad are gearing up for the release of a new 12″ EP called The Wrong Car, the title track of which you can hear over at the band’s Myspace. Featuring the increased focus on James Graham’s lyricism and morose singing voice present on Forget the Night Ahead while keeping with the wall of sound instrumentation of Fourteen Autumns the track presents a step upwards in production value without losing its indie flavor. Clocking in at over seven minutes and building to a dreary cacophony, “The Wrong Car” rests up there with “Mapped By What Surrounded Them” or “I Became a Prostitute” as one of the group’s strongest tracks. Check out the whole tracklist for the EP below.
1. “The Wrong Car”
2. “Throw Yourself In The Water Again”
3. “The Room” (Mogwai Remix)
4. “Reflection Of The Television” (Errors Remix)
The band has also recently released a live EP called The Twilight Sad Live at Lime which you can purchase over at the Limewire Store. Featuring a stripped down sound that showcases Graham’s inimitable voice it’s a must-have for die-hard fans like ourselves. Check out a sample track below.
The Twilight Sad – “Cold Days From the Birdhouse (Live at Lime)”
Jumping on this bandwagon a midge too late perhaps, but if there’s even one person out there who hasn’t heard about the utterly phenomenal heirs to the indie-Scot-rock throne We Were Promised Jetpacks, let us here at Cannibal Cheerleader let you know this group can only be described as utterly life-altering in their musical ways. While their name might inspire jeers and questions, focus not on the sci-fi inspired humorousness of the statement but the sense of emptiness and disappointment, the realization that childhood fantasies give way to harsh, cruel reality. Careening across the Western hemisphere, riding high on the back of their excellent debut LP These Four Walls, this Scottish foursome has a lot to be proud of when they stand beside groups like the Twilight Sad and Frightened Rabbit at a recent gig at the Mohawk here in Austin. A testament to the power of indie-rock and roll, find out about this group quickly.
Stop the presses, throw your phone into the lake, unplug your internet right this very instance because with their sophomore LP Forget the Night Ahead Scotland’s the Twilight Sad have accomplished the impossible and crafted a swirling, haunting, incredible followup to their already seminal debut Fourteen Autumns, Fifteen Winters. Why are you reading this and not listening to this album? Delivering on the promise of the fantastic early singles “I Became a Prostitute” and “Reflection of the Television”, Forget the Night Ahead feels in many ways a tighter, more furiously focused record in contrast to the meandering codas that defined their earlier works, though instrumental tracks like “Scissors” illuminate the fact that the group still has a lot to say in the context of fuzz and feedback. Tracks like “That Room” and “Seven Years of Letters” present a band that has become comfortable with its strengths, relying primarily on a flurry of guitar wails, loud-quiet-loud explosions, and James Graham’s inimitable voice. Truly a work of art and one of the absolute best releases of the year, bar-none.
The Twilight Sad – “That Room”
The Twilight Sad – “Seven Years of Letters”
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