The Twilight Sad - Forget The Night Ahead
The Twilight Sad - Forget The Night Ahead (2009)
EAC Rip | Flac (tracks) + Cue + Log | No scans | 368 Mb
Shoegaze | Label: Fat Cat | Depositfiles + Sharingmatrix
EAC Rip | Flac (tracks) + Cue + Log | No scans | 368 Mb
Shoegaze | Label: Fat Cat | Depositfiles + Sharingmatrix
Tracklist:
01 - Reflection of the Television
02 - I Became a Prostitute
03 - Seven Years of Letters
04 - Made to Disappear
05 - Scissors
06 - That Room
07 - That Birthday Present
08 - Floorboards Under the Bed
09 - Interrupted
10 - The Neighbours Can't Breathe
11 - At the Burnside
For an accelerated immersion in The Twilight Sad experience, pop in the Scottish rockers’ second LP Forget The Night Ahead and skip to Track 7, “That Birthday Present.” It may be the fastest song The Twilight Sad’s ever recorded, replacing the band’s usual dogged pounding with aggression, scrape, and an explosive climax. And yet beneath the squall, frontman James Graham is still busy exploring memories and the moods they evoke, in a distinctive singsong voice. Forget The Night Ahead is less immediately appealing than The Twilight Sad’s debut album Fourteen Autumns And Fifteen Winters; the songs are noisier and more monotonous, with little of the slow build and subtle lilt of songs like “Last Year’s Rain Didn’t Fall Quite So Hard” or “That Summer At Home I Had Become The Invisible Boy.” But the Forget tracks “I Became A Prostitute,” “Seven Years Of Letters,” and “The Neighbours Can’t Breathe” show a band capable of muscling up without losing a fascination with fragile, fleeting moments. If Graham and his cohorts have a default posture, it’s with their backs turned and heads down, gazing into a microscope at the minutiae of a day long past.
Though the Twilight Sad's debut, Fourteen Autumns & Fifteen Winters, and its follow-up, Forget the Night Ahead, were released only two years apart, it feels like more time than that elapsed in the band's evolution. Granted, the band kept busy during that time, releasing the EP Here, It Never Snowed, Afterwards It Did and the compilation album Killed My Parents and Hit the Road and touring with acts like Mogwai. Just how important that activity was to this album becomes apparent quickly: one of the songs collected on Killed My Parents and Hit the Road was the band's cover of the Smiths' "Half a Person," and Forget the Night Ahead's lead track, "Reflection of the Television," with its dense guitars and James Graham's sullen croon, sounds uncannily like a collaboration between Morrissey and Mogwai. While those elements have always been present in the Twilight Sad's music, they've never been so clear; indeed, one of the most notable things about the album is just how much clearer the band's sound is here than it was on Fourteen Autumns & Fifteen Winters. Here, a heavier, denser attack replaces that album's atmospheric drift; these songs are as moody as ever, but muscular – the guitar roar on "I Became a Prostitute" and "That Birthday Present" recalls Shellac as much as it does My Bloody Valentine or the Twilight Sad's other cited influences. The band's writing is also more direct, giving the album a blunter feel, but the emotions swirling in these songs are still complex. Regret, revenge, and reassurance mingle in Graham's voice when he sings "You and I will bury them all" on "Interrupted" or "Blood is never spilled after dinner" on "The Room." The delicacy and epic sweep of the Twilight Sad's first album is missed occasionally on Forget the Night Ahead, but the progress they've made is fascinating – and rewarding – to hear.
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The Twilight Sad / Forget the Night Ahead
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EAC extraction logfile from 28. August 2009, 23:45
The Twilight Sad / Forget the Night Ahead
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