THE TWILIGHT SAD
Fourteen Autumns and Fifteen Winters
Fat Cat
· Confident Glaswegian indie rock is the perfect complement to a dreary spring day.
With a couple EPs, five shows at South By Southwest (North America’s premier music conference) and the freshly pressed Fourteen Autumns and Fifteen Winters album under their belts, The Twilight Sad are relative newcomers to the UK music scene. That being said, their style is familiar, having been incubated among Glasgow’s contemporary acts, such as Mogwai.
The first couple of songs are very radio-friendly, which may bring to mind Coldplay for some, but with a tougher blue-collar brogue. By the third track, "Walking for Two Hours," the album morphs from being a standard Scottish indie rock album into a tumultuous ferry ride across the North Sea – complete with gale force winds, swelling ocean waves, diesel engines and foghorns – as interpreted by guitars, bass, drums, theremin, in addition to other noisy effects. The following song, "Last Year’s Rain Didn’t Fall Quite So Hard," maintains this awesome power.
The second half of the album builds on the melodramatic sound perfected on Arab Strap’s watershed album Mad for Sadness. However, The Twilight Sad choose to subtract Adian Moffat’s distinctive monotonic storytelling and add instead a mildly repetitive lyrical style similar to Win Butler’s work on Arcade Fire’s Funeral. The song "Mapped by What Surrounded Them" being the most convincing example of this combination.
Save Fourteen Autumns and Fifteen Winters as an album to ponder over on a particularly cold, rainy day.
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