STUART MORRISON
It was perhaps particularly apt that, two days before Aereogramme bade farewell, their successors staked their claim for greatness. Because, make no mistake, The Twilight Sad will be huge. They already look, act and sound like a band who know they will be. Indeed, they will headline the Your Sound bandstand at the Connect festival. Within the confines of Oran Mor's basement venue, the noise they made was astonishing. Like Aereogramme and Mogwai, their other most obvious influence, they have mastered the art of dynamics, so that, for every bludgeoning guitar and drum assault, there are moments of tranquillity. The debut album Fourteen Autumns and Fifteen Winters was played almost in its entirety, with the single, And She Would Darken the Memory, the splendidly bleak That Summer at Home I Had Become the Invisible Boy and Walking for Two Hours, all outstanding, before it was all brought to an apocalyptic conclusion with I'm Taking the Train Home.
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