In my opinion The Twilight Sad are making some of the finest music coming out of the UK at the moment. Mixing great lyrics, soaring anthems, white noise feedback and a frontman with one of the strongest (and most Scottish) voices around, they've made a great debut album and followed it up with a couple of excellent EPs. Even better, they are showing no signs of resting on their laurels and are changing and moving forward with their sound, with a new LP due in September.
'EP' is actually their debut release, recorded way back in 2006 and only made available in the U.S. It has taken T&G quite some time to track it down (thanks to Norman Records for getting some in stock) and so I thought I may as well write about it now that I've finally heard it.
'EP' contains three of the finest tracks from the 'Fourteen Autumns and Fifteen Winters' and two songs that didn't make the cut. Those are... 'But When She Left, Gone Was The Glow' a brooding, accordian led piece which reminds me of their cover of 'Some Things Last A Long Time' and 'Three Seconds Of Dead Air' an eight-minute epic ending with a terrific avalanche of noise.
The three songs from 'Fourteen Autumns...' sound as superb as ever of course. Another thing I love about TSS is their song titles. Some, maybe all, of them seem to be lines from works of literature. 'Last Summer At Home I had become the Invisible Boy' is from Stand By Me and 'Here It Never Snowed, Afterward It Did' is from 'Stand By Me'....would like to hear from anyone who can place any of the other titles...
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