The Twilight Sadness

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Created on: 3 Jun 2007
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A community for the fans of incredible The Twilight Sad.

Taken from Fat Cat Records:

Based outside of Glasgow, The Twilight Sad formed in late 2003. The band played a couple of gigs at the 13th Note in Glasgow, creating half hour-long pieces of music using guitars, bass, drums, theremin, tape loops from films and old folk/country songs, effects pedals, toy keyboards, thumb pianos, saws, computer games and a lot of noise in an attempt to try and discover a sound they could call their own and continue to develop. After these two shows, they rejected many gig offers, and became a more reclusive unit, spending any spare time they had in the studio focused on writing and sculpting away at new material.

In September 2005, they wrote four songs they thought gave a relatively good perspective of the band, and went into a local studio to record them, producing it themselves. Staying in the studio for many nights, they used a 24-track desk to build layer upon layer of sound, trying to get the best representation as possible. Thinking that the CD they came out with showed little more than some kind of raw potential, they posted it down to FatCat as a demo. After receiving a positive response and a request for more tracks, the band continued to expand on their song writing and kept regularly in contact with the label. Instead of paying for more studio time they began to make lo-fi recordings in bedrooms, bathrooms and their own rehearsal space, developing a more folk/experimental/noise sound. In mid-May the band came down to Brighton to meet the label and played on the bill of a FatCat night on the pier alongside The Mutts, Charlottefield, The Rank Deluxe, and fellow Glasgow band, The Frightened Rabbit.

Where the band’s recorded sound is layered with many melodies, their live sound is a more intense experience which replaces the intricacies of the recordings with a more visceral wall of noise.

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  • Hellastarr

    Got to witness and shake hands with you gentlemen at the El Rey last year :D Excellent show!

    May 2011

  • Hellastarr

    ♥

    May 2011

  • automne_

    : )

    October 2010

  • grungepig

    Yeah I love the Twilight saga too!<3

    May 2010

  • champersnova

    I need Twilight Sad live in my life.

    March 2010

  • oprimus

    The 405 reviewed them live: http://tinyurl.com/ygkgjxs

    November 2009

  • koolakalle

    What an awesome show they put up.

    August 2009

  • selfsurprise

    Howdydoody Babs, I didn't know you liked The Twilight Sad.

    August 2009

  • pecusita

    Shhhhhh. Babs, you are going to make Merih jealous. Between you and me, those guitars are aaaaaamazinggggggg!

    August 2009

  • Babs_05

    In love with those guitars. Excellent live!

    August 2009

  • champersnova

    Let that be a fighter then. *nods*

    June 2009

  • pecusita

    More than a fighter. A fighter, ok?

    June 2009

  • pecusita

    I'm more than a fireeeee you knowwww :D Download Reflection of the Television!!! (A link for the clueless people out there)

    May 2009

  • champersnova

    Listening to the new song now. You should be able to hear my heart beats from across the network. No? :-))))))

    May 2009

  • heyadamo

    Pitchfork has an MP3 of "Reflection of the Television" from the new album coming late September. *biggrin*

    May 2009

  • pecusita

    I'm unfamiliar with this tween Twilight series, but I thought Edward loved Bella. I was unaware that he wanted to smother her too. Hmmm... nothing more appealing than soft, prepubescent, s&m fantasies.

    March 2009

  • VietRebel

    the boy in the picture is Edward Cullen and the girl is Bella.

    March 2009

  • champersnova

    I hate you all. I seriously do. :-P

    March 2009

  • pecusita

    Well, in about 2 months I'll be leaving champers as the only regular/active member of this group that has not seen the band live. Don't worry, I'll buy our commemorative group bag if they are selling it and attach a handwritten tag that will read: "this one is for champersnova"

    March 2009

  • massibhoy

    http://www.lastfm.it/group/The+Just+Joans

    February 2009
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