Artist: The Twilight Sad
Title: Forget The Night Ahead
Label: FatCat Records
Genre: Indie
Bitrate: 199kbit av.
Time: 00:49:15
Size: 74.07 mb
Rip Date: 2009-08-30
Str Date: 2009-10-05
01. Reflection Of The Television 4:57
02. I Became A Prostitute 5:20
03. Seven Years Of Letters 4:34
04. Made To Disappear 4:52
05. Scissors 3:16
06. That Room 4:33
07. That Birthday Present 5:02
08. Floorboards Under The Bed 3:26
09. Interrupted 3:59
10. The Neighbours Can't Breathe 5:23
11. At The Burnside 3:53
Release Notes:
The Twilight Sad announce the details of their hugely anticipated
sophomore æForget The Night AheadÆ album. Already trailed by opener
æReflections Of The TelevisionÆ - which dropped on Pitchfork during
May, and single æI Became A ProstituteÆ on August 3rd, the new album
will be released in the UK on 5th October.
The Kilsyth quartet have been busy previewing the new songs on both
sides of the Atlantic with US dates supporting Mogwai, and a UK
headline tour in May which included some heart-stoppingly intense û and
intensely loud - performances at three Stag and Dagger events, and two
Great Escape appearances. And this time around the band have an
audience, as singer James Graham acknowledged, speaking to Pitchfork
last month; "Now people know us, there's a bit more pressure. Before
there was no expectations. Now people want to come and see this band
they really like, so you think, god, we've got to play really well
tonight!ö
In lyrical terms æForget The Night AheadÆ is possibly a darker set even
than itÆs hallowed predecessor æFourteen Autumns and Fifteen WintersÆ,
James GrahamÆs portentous knack for unsettling lines, forcefully
delivered in his own Caledonian burr remaining very much on point.
Speaking to The Skinny at the start of the year James cautioned; ôWe
have definitely moved on from æFourteen Autumns and Fifteen WintersÆ,
musically and lyrically. One thing that I can promise is that the
lyrics are very dark, but you might have to look into them a bit to
realise [that]. They are mainly based around things that have happened
to me over the past two years, revolving mainly around losing people
and being none too proud or happy with myself about my antics and
situations IÆve found myself in.ö Guitarist Andy MacFarlane concurs,
ôIt is a step forward from the first record, the song writing and the
sound of the band has moved on from that time, which is something we'll
always try and do, we don't want to ever stand still and make records
that sound like each other.ö
Produced and mixed by ex-DelgadosÆ man Paul Savage and guitarist Andy
MacFarlane at the legendary Chem19 Studios in Glasgow, musically too,
the new record is no less tumultuous, MacFarelaneÆs distinctive
tremeloÆd guitar creating seismic shifts between melancholy
introspection and explosive release, the cacophony broadening to
accommodate the bandÆs most melodic and yet also most thrillingly
discordant moments yet. Here the influence of artists like early 80Æs
Cure, Neu, Wire or even Shellac are just as prominent as
longer-standing comparisons to MBV or Joy Division. The album also
features the talents of ex-Aerogramme member, Dok, who also contributes
guitar and keys to the live line-up, and My Latest NovelÆs Laura
McFarlane who plays violin on æThe RoomÆ and æThat Birthday PresentÆ.
ôThe recording was approached differently this timeö, says MacFarlane
ôWe made a point of staying home to write. Writing on tour is a bad
idea, so we stayed in Scotland for the full process. It let us go home
after sessions - if we weren't getting snowed-in the studio - and we
had more time to experiment and develop the ideas we had. We'd make a
lot of use of an old, half-working, Roland Space Echo that we'd plug
the vocals, noise strings and piano through, that would get an out of
tune effect, like some of the early krautrock recordings. All the
reverbs are natural, which were done by mic'ing up inside the studio
walls and rooms on the other side of the building to get the drum
sound. Three bass heads were blown up [in the process]. There are no
big, long delayed guitars, just a lot more noisy ones and there were a
few songs that maxed out the desk because of the amount that's on
there!ö
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