The Twilight Sad Give Us 'Reflection Of The Television'
Cleaner production on The Twilight Sad's soon to be released album still paints a bleak picture.
Some might say that Glasgow, Scotland's The Twilight
Sad couldn't make us feel any sadder about life and how to live it. Their debut
album, Fourteen Autumns and Fifteen Winters, was a forceful
collection of "sad bastard" music turned up to ten. The
melancholy that usually permeates the Northern UK (Arab Strap, Tindersticks) is
best in small doses. For future reference, please refrain from rocking
out ot Mogwai if you are taking Paxil or Effexor – just a friendly warning. "Reflections Of The Television," taken from The Twilight Sad's soon to be released Forget The Night Ahead, has lead singer and chief song-writer James Graham painting a
bleak picture of being alone with only the TV to keep him company. Graham
sings in an accent as thick as Mike Myers' father in So I
Married An Axe Murderer, while Mark
Devine's drums sound like a house falling down you. The noticeably
cleaner production that would otherwise compromise a noise-pop band's
"cool status" only brings Graham's paranoid voice to the foreground. Five
minutes of genuine Scottish desolation worth listening to.
Posted by Joe Roth on Jul 02, 2009 @ 9:00 am