Finally the wait is over, 'Forget the Night Ahead' is out today. The Twilight Sad have been one of my highlights this year, being properly introduced to them earlier in the year at a One Little Indian/Fatcat night at the ICA where they played with We Were Promised Jetpacks and I was blown away by everything I saw.
Being a keen follower ever since the gig I gave this album a little bit of time to properly sink in because I wanted to give it the justice it deserves.
These guys are all about the live sound which is something I felt didn't come across as well in their first album but that was only after witnessing the spectacle of The Twilight Sad's live show and seeing just what they offered. With Forget the Night Ahead whatever they've done in the studio is working because this album is brilliant!
I don't know how they've done it but they've actually got an album of Post-Rock songs that are catchy, the mix of James Graham's (now trademark) vocals with Andy MacFarlane's multi multi effected guitar get me on every song on this album. Aggressive in parts, beautiful in others, from the first song 'Reflection of the Television' starting with those pounding drums building up to the delayed, distorted, reverbed and god knows what else guitars and then moving straight into their latest single 'I Became A Prostitute' (Middle Boop single of the week a while ago) which is five minutes of epic guitars the likes of which you may well have never heard and the strangely catchy chorus that you could just play all day and still want to listen to more. But they are not always about the heavy effects and loudness, track six 'The Room' is one of the highlights of the album and the main focus is much more on the melancholy piano lines and the emotional (not emo) lyrics and strong vocal talents of James Graham.
Twilight Sad are a band that people are really starting to catch onto over here and it's no surprise, there just isn't anyone else playing music this good at the moment.
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