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The Twilight Sad Give Us 'Reflection Of The Television'

Cleaner production on The Twilight Sad's soon to be released album still paints a bleak picture.

Some might say that Glasgow, Scotland's The Twilight Sad couldn't make us feel any sadder about life and how to live it. Their debut album, Fourteen Autumns and Fifteen Winters, was a forceful collection of "sad bastard" music turned up to ten.  The melancholy that usually permeates the Northern UK (Arab Strap, Tindersticks) is best in small doses.  For future reference, please refrain from rocking out ot Mogwai if you are taking Paxil or Effexor – just a friendly warning.

"Reflections Of The Television," taken from The Twilight Sad's soon to be released Forget The Night Ahead, has lead singer and chief song-writer James Graham painting a bleak picture of being alone with only the TV to keep him company.  Graham sings in an accent as thick as Mike Myers' father in So I Married An Axe Murderer, while Mark Devine's drums sound like a house falling down you.  The noticeably cleaner production that would otherwise compromise a noise-pop band's "cool status" only brings Graham's paranoid voice to the foreground.  Five minutes of genuine Scottish desolation worth listening to.