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a r t i s t :: The Twilight Sad
t i t l e :: Nobody Wants To Be Here And Nobody Wants To Leave
d a t e :: 2014-00-00
l a b e l :: Fat Cat
g e n r e :: Indie
s o u r c e :: CD
b i t r a t e :: 901 kbps avg
e n c o d e r :: FLAC 1.2.1 -8 -V
t r a c k s :: 10
p l a y t i m e :: 43:31
s i z e :: 282.5MB
tracklist
1 There's A Girl In The Corner 3:50
2 Last January 5:11
3 I Could Give You All That You Don't 4:17
Want
4 It Never Was The Same 5:01
5 Drown So I Can Watch 3:16
6 In Nowheres 5:24
7 Nobody Wants To Be Here And Nobody 4:08
Wants To Leave
8 Pills I Swallow 4:01
9 Leave The House 4:31
10 Sometimes I Wished I Could Fall Asleep 3:52
releasenotes
Dark and edgy as a rule, The Twilight Sad have nonetheless tread their way
across a significant amount of stylistic territory in the course of three
albums.
The transition from debut Fourteen Autumns and Fifteen Winters through Forget
The Night Ahead to No One Can Ever Know mightÆve been a bit jostling. Gloom
clung like fog to the bandÆs music, but in tweaking the knobs for noise,
volume and distortion, The Twilight Sad skittered in different sonic
directions from album to album.
And while the Scottish trio doesnÆt really turn over any new rocks on record
No. 4, Nobody Wants To Be Here and Nobody Wants to Leave is a step forward in
defining the bandÆs scope. The Twilight Sad havenÆt jettisoned anything.
Spooky folk, shoegaze, industrial and the post-punk UK alternative of
forebears like The Cure now all find a place under the umbrella.
ôThereÆs a Girl in the Cornerö is the first of this recordÆs unsettled
party-goers, a song that heats up quickly and remains tense and simmering
above Andy MacFarlaneÆs bed of layered, distorted guitars.
Single ôLast Januaryö is gritty post-punk, alienation hanging suspended in the
vocals of James Graham. ItÆs about surrender of sorts, the weird outsider too
old to fit in finally coming to terms with that damning sense of separation.
Along the way, the haunting echoes of guitar circle, a vulture ready to feed
on misery.
Recording at MogwaiÆs Castle Of Doom studio in Glasgow, The Twilight Sad
deftly blend all those shades of darkness in the music with seductive
melodies. ôI Could Give You All That You DonÆt Wantö is like reveling in a bad
mood, chasing the frantic pleasure of wreckage. ôDrown So I Can Watchö
mightÆve been a hit 20 years ago, sounding like a lost Cure single balanced on
the edge between Disintegration and Wish, anguished lyrics held in a momentary
bloom.
The band steps back into the punishing industrial realm of their last record
on ôIn Nowheres,ö the backdrop of noise fighting to push Graham to the
background. The visceral title track pushes that conflict further, to
remarkable claustrophobic effect.
Album closer ôSometimes I Wished I Could Fall Asleepö acts as a departure:
slow, stately and sorrowful. The music is little more than a drum steadily
thumping at the pace of a nervous heartbeat, deep ringing piano chords and
GrahamÆs vocals, yet itÆs a drenching, overwhelming sound. ôThereÆs nothing
left for us,ö Graham sings, the immensity of those words painfully driven
home.
Nobody Wants To Be Here and Nobody Wants to Leave is The Twilight SadÆs most
demanding album, dragging listeners from burning coals to murky, cold depths.
The bandÆs past is here, in all its different forms. So too is the future for
The Twilight Sad, a band never more in command of its dark magic.
www.thetwilightsad.com
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