Description:	CD on Fat Cat
	Format:	CD
	Genre(s):	Indie Rock
	Label:	FatCat
	Price:	£11.09
	Availability:	Dispatched within 2-5 days (on average).

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...according to our Clinton on 01 October 2009.

Clint here. We're so so busy - I'm having to do the reviews in record time so no wittering (hooray!). First up we have the new album from The Twilight Sad called 'Forget The Night Ahead'. Their first album and its accompanying EP's created quite a stir both here and across the pond we call the atlantic ocean. I for one was very impressed with their noisy Scottish pop that sounded somewhere between My Bloody Valentine, Sonic Youth, the Proclaimers and Joy Division. A wonderful racket but also with folky influences. Anyway the first concern about the new album is - WHAT ON EARTH HAS HAPPENED TO THE GUITARISTS HAIR? It was a wonderful mass of curls - the best hair on a male since that atop the singer from the Milltown Brothers. Now its the regulation indie post rock shaved head and beard cut. If you have great hair you should really use it. As for the music its more of the same but not as good. The single 'I Became a Prostitute' is a stirling piece of thumping melodic Scottish rock music, its follow up 'Severn Years of Letters' is Sonic Youth fronted by Kenny Dalglish. Other songs just tend to drift by on first listen but here's hoping they grow a bit. A few of the edges have been shaved off and it seems there's a little lack of inspiration at times. That said, I' gonad give this a lot more listens before I come to a definitive conclusion.

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Sound clips for Forget The Night Ahead by The Twilight Sad: on CD at Norman Records UK. CD, FatCat, FATCD77, £11.09.

What their label says...

· ‘Forget The Night Ahead’ was produced by The Twilight Sad guitarist Andy MacFarlane
with the assistance of the Delagados’ Paul Savage at Scotland’s legendary Chem19 Studios.
Andy McFarlane’s distinctive tremeloed guitar creates startling shifts between melancholy
introspective and explosive tension, the cacophony broadening to accommodate the band’s most
melodic and also thrillingly discordant moments yet. ‘Forget The Night Ahead’ features the violin
work of My Latest Novel’s Laura McFarlane. The band have recently recruited fifth member
Martin Docherty - formerly of Aereogramme – for additional live keyboards and guitars.
· The Twilight Sad have just returned from a US tour with Mogwai, playing shows attended by
Yoko Ono and Thurston Moore. The band’s live show is blisteringly intense, deafening and
tender in equal measure, often seeing the songs take on a heart-stopping, epic life of their own
amidst a towering wall of noise.
· Previous tours have included stadium shows with Snow Patrol and Smashing Pumpkins, and
opening for genre-luminaries such as Micah P. Hinson, David Pajo, Battles, Beirut, Mice
Parade and Idlewild, as well as packed-out headline shows.

Reflection Of The Television * I Became A Prostitute *
Seven Years Of Letters * Made To Disappear * Scissors *
The Room * That Birthday Present * Floorboards Under The Bed *
Interrupted * The Neighbours Can't Breathe * At The Burnside