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The Twilight Sad
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Kilsyth, Glasgow, United Kingdom (2003 – present)
The Twilight Sad are an indie rock band from Kilsyth, Scotland formed in late 2003. The band is composed of James Alexander Graham (vocals), Andy MacFarlane (guitar), Craig Orzel (bass) and Mark Devine (drums). They have released two full-length albums: Fourteen Autumns & Fifteen Winters (2007) and Forget The Night Ahead (2009). Where their debut album mixed post-rock and post-punk with heavily delayed shoegaze guitars and folk elements, their second album is more influenced by early krautrock.
The band started up by playing 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 produced a 4-song demo with a 24-track desk, trying to get the best representation as possible, sent it over to Brighton-based Fat Cat Records. Alex Knight, co-founder of the label, went to Glasgow to watch the band perform their third gig and signed them on the spot. In November 2006, they made their first official release with The Twilight Sad, a US-only EP that helped bring attention to the band, as well as performances at CMJ ‘06 and SXSW ‘07 Festivals.
The band started up by playing 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 produced a 4-song demo with a 24-track desk, trying to get the best representation as possible, sent it over to Brighton-based Fat Cat Records. Alex Knight, co-founder of the label, went to Glasgow to watch the band perform their third gig and signed them on the spot. In November 2006, they made their first official release with The Twilight Sad, a US-only EP that helped bring attention to the band, as well as performances at CMJ ‘06 and SXSW ‘07 Festivals.
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Fourteen Autumns And Fifteen Winters
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Killed My Parents And Hit The Road
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Here, It Never Snowed. Afterwards It Did
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james_cfc wrote:
My cousin and I met the singer in a pub last night, good shit! Listened to the new album for the first time today, great stuff.
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goodw1nn wrote:
хм
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freepcgame wrote:
the room is good
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fux0r3d wrote:
pwnz
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elnico wrote:
14A&15W > FTNA
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under_the_radar wrote:
Twilight Sad frontman James Graham blogs about Christmas... http://www.scotsman.com/utr
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pseudovoid wrote:
zacvann, they do smoke, at least one of em does. I got high with the bassist one time at this party :)
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titchio wrote:
Beyond words <3
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Disconnecty wrote:
That birthday present - best song from the new album
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pecusita wrote:
I'm with jimmert! The Room is most certainly my favorite. It's a very affecting and memorable song. I don't know what it's actually about, but I usually feel shameful and regret something that I didn't even do :( @BWalshy try adding quotes "twilight sad" Doesn't guarantee anything, though.
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BWalshy wrote:
its annoying when i look for youtube vids of these guys and find only shirtless vampires and werewolves.
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Jimmert wrote:
The Room.
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landmixer wrote:
To sunnychick ->Excellent choice. :)
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sunnychick wrote:
landmixer I Became A Prostitute is amazing indeed, and would be my favourite if I could get the chorus 'We're on a hiding to nowhere' out of my head! So It has to be Seven Years Of Letters right now.
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landmixer wrote:
O yeah. The new release is awesome and divine. I love him too. What about the favourite track? "I Became A Prostitute" is amazingly great. Amazingly... deep and tragical.
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sunnychick wrote:
Forget The Night Ahead is a mighty, muscular album, yet at the same time manages to be fragile and beaitiful. I love it.
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Jimmert wrote:
imo the new album is nearly twice as good as the first. they grew a lot.
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landmixer wrote:
The new album is the new finished product with very deep and inner vision. Therefore every album is different.
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Anarx wrote:
New album isn't half as good as Fourteen Autumns and Fifteen Winters.
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landmixer wrote:
wow-wow!!! The amazingly divine band. Their magic sound makes me happy. They are geniuses. "I Became a Prostitute" is a huge masterpiece. Oh my God. I love these guys....
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a song to orzel, by andy
7 Nov 2009 | from blog.myspace.com/thetwilightsad
Ground control to OrzelGround control to Orzel Take your heed nip pills and get your helmet out (Ten) Ground control (Nine) to Orzel (Eight) (Seven, six) Commencing countdown (Five), engines on (Four. …
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17 Jul 2009 | from blog.myspace.com/thetwilightsad
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