4 ...according to our Clinton on 11 December 2008.
The 'man' has allowed me to speak at you for the last few reviews of the week. Lets hope I don't ruin it for myself and everyone. First up one of my favourite bands The Twilight Sad. I've been banging on about these for ages to the scoundrels that inhabit these dark dingy towers but will they listen? Well perhaps finally they are. The Twilight Sad are the band Glasvegas would be if their music matched the hype and didn't sound so much like Runrig. Anyway this is a tour CD called 'The Twilight Sad Killed My Parents and Hit the Road' which has been made available through Fat Cat and seems to consist of a rough but enlightening live show with a few added bonus tracks. The live shows gives some idea of how exciting the band can be in the flesh with wild out of control guitars and angry scottish man vocals. At time they come across like the perfect cross between My Bloody Valentine and The Proclaimers at others they recall angry 1980's mancs Dub Sex. The only criticism would be that it would be nice to hear some new material pretty soon but it is a tour CD and therefore the kind of pointless Joy Division and Smiths covers that fill up the CD are sort of excusable. Limited to 200 yes 200 copies.
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What their label says...
‘The Twilight Sad Killed My Parents And Hit The Road’ is an exclusive limited-edition release from The Twilight Sad, and has been created to coincide with their 2008 European tour with Mogwai. Available for sale at the live dates and exclusively in a number of independent shops and digitally online, this collection of covers, instrumentals, previously unreleased material and live tracks recorded at the ABC in Glasgow, highlights the power and raw intensity of their live sound. The release includes live recordings of four songs from ‘Fourteen Autumns and Fifteen Winters’, their critically acclaimed debut album released in 2007.
With the majority of tracks mixed and mastered by Iain Cook of Aerogramme, ‘…Killed My Parents And Hit The Road’ encompasses the bands’ bare, unfeigned use of melancholy with rousing, epic intensity, never straying too far from hitting sentimental nerves, creating a collection of songs that are as intriguing as they are engulfing. Alongside their own tracks, the band have chosen to cover songs by Joy Division (‘Twenty Four Hours’), Yeah Yeah Yeahs (‘Modern Romance’) and The Smiths (‘Half A Person’), providing greater scope into the tracks’ melancholy subjects, whilst retaining the stirring and engaging qualities of the originals.
• Only 200 copies will be sent out EXCLUSIVE to independent record shops, and once the limited tour copies sell out this release will not be re-pressed and will only be available for digital download. • The cover art is a doctored version of Sonic Youth’s classic ‘Goo’ album; the recognisable masks which link this to past Twilight Sad releases now cover the couple’s faces.
Tracklisting: 1. Walking For Two Hours 2. That Summer, At Home I Had Become The Invisible Boy 3. Untitled #28 4. Cold Days From The Birdhouse 5. And She Would Darken The Memory 6. Twenty Four Hours (Curtis/Hook/Morris/Sumner) 7. The Wealther Is Bad 8. Half A Person (Morrissey/Marr) 9. Untitled #27 10. Modern Romance (Chase/Orzolek/Zinner) 11. I Was Hoping Winter Was Over
