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77-634: The Twilight Sad are a Scottish post-punk / indie rock band, comprising James Graham (vocals), Andy MacFarlane (guitar), Johnny Docherty (bass), Brendan Smith (keyboards) and Grant Hutchison (drums). They have released five studio albums, as well as several EPs, live recordings and singles. Their 2007 debut album, Fourteen Autumns & Fifteen Winters , drew widespread acclaim from critics, who noted Graham's thick Scottish accent and MacFarlane's dense sonic walls of shoegazing guitar and wheezing accordion. The Twilight Sad's notoriously loud live performances have been described as "completely ear-splitting", and

154-619: A "new garage rock revolution", or simply a "new rock revolution". According to music critic Jim DeRogatis , the Strokes, the White Stripes and The Hives all had a sound "to some extent rooted in Nuggets -era garage rock". There was interest in garage rock and elements of punk in the 1980s and 1990s, and by 2000 local music scenes in several countries had bands playing alternative and indie music. The Detroit rock scene included

231-570: A "spectacularly middle-of-the-road" band despite his close proximity to the Libertines' "desperate kinetic energy, mythologised love-hate dynamic and vision of a dilapidated Britain animated by romance and narcotics". By 2008, the initial success of the movement was beginning to subside, leading commentators to discuss its decline as a phenomenon and argue that it had been overtaken by the more musically and emotionally complex music of indie rock bands like Arcade Fire and Death Cab for Cutie . By

308-442: A band that sounds just like their album. That's what we try not to do." In a 2014 interview with Jazz Monroe of The Skinny , James Graham commented on the misconception of the band's "disturbed reputation" pertaining to his lyrics, as well as designer Dave "DLT" Thomas' "darkly suggestive" artwork. Monroe wrote, "There's a misconception that James himself had a difficult childhood; in fact, The Skinny has it on good authority that

385-448: A bit of a leap to just go 'this is actually how I'm feeling.' I think now is the time to just be more open and honest with people. For myself it was important to say these things, but when it was done it was great to share it's okay to feel that way." On 10 July 2018, the band announced that they had signed to Mogwai 's label Rock Action Records and released their new single, stylised as "I/m Not Here [missing face]", for streaming and as

462-675: A bus stop and invited him to join the newly formed band. They took their name from a line in the poem "But I Was Looking at the Permanent Stars" by British poet Wilfred Owen , which reads "Sleep mothered them; and left the twilight sad ." They performed two highly experimental shows at The 13th Note Café in Glasgow that revolved around 30-minute noise jams with guitars, bass, drums, theremin, tape loops from films and old folk and country songs, effects pedals, toy keyboards, thumb pianos, and computer games. Afterwards, they decided to take

539-455: A cover of Frightened Rabbit's "Keep Yourself Warm" in tribute to close friend Scott Hutchison , who had died in May; the song was to remain in their setlists, with Graham stating: "we have a duty and responsibility to keep Scott's music and keep sharing it. When we're around touring, we need to tell people about him". In an interview with NME , posted on 9 July 2018, Andy MacFarlane stated that

616-565: A digital download. The release coincided with an announcement of late 2018 tour dates in North America and Europe. On 5 September, the band announced that their fifth studio album, titled and stylised as It Won/t Be Like This All the Time , would be released on 18 January 2019. The album, recorded in early 2018, features Jonny Scott on drums. The first proper single, "Videograms", preceded the album on 26 October 2018. A third song lifted from

693-466: A headlining performance at Barrowland Ballroom in mid-December. Prior to recording Nobody Wants to Be Here and Nobody Wants to Leave , the band was considering calling it quits until a major revitalisation occurred. In addition to the warm critical response the band received for their fourth album, The Twilight Sad was chosen by Robert Smith to be the supporting act for The Cure on their May/June 2016 North American tour, which included three nights at

770-545: A mainstream success with their compilation album Your New Favourite Band (2001) which peaked at No. 7 on the UK charts. Also in 2001, Black Rebel Motorcycle Club 's debut album hit No. 5 in the UK. The Vines , from Australia, released Highly Evolved in 2002, which was a top 5 success in both England and Australia, and peaked at No. 11 in the US. Along with the Strokes, White Stripes, Hives and others, they were christened by parts of

847-528: A more traditional approach, which led them to write their first song, " That Summer, at Home I Had Become the Invisible Boy ". In September 2006, they produced a 4-song demo with a 24-track desk recorded at Paulshalls Studios in Cumbernauld recorded by David McKellar, trying to get the best representation as possible, and sent it over to Brighton -based Fat Cat Records . Alex Knight, co-founder of

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924-467: Is about making people feel things they wouldn't usually feel, things they're scared to feel – loss, anger, depression. To write a love song for somebody would probably be the hardest thing. I've never done that." Guitarist Andy MacFarlane composed the song "The Weath-er Is Bad" for Semiconductor Films' short film Brilliant Noise , a film pieced together from archive NASA footage of the Sun's surface. The song

1001-400: Is closely associated with new wave revival and garage rock revival . The genre has an emphasis on "rock authenticity" that was seen as a reaction to the commercialism of MTV -oriented nu metal , hip hop and "bland" post-Britpop groups. The commercial breakthrough of the genre came with the release of the Strokes ' Is This It in 2001. The genre reached a zenith in the middle of

1078-458: Is one of the best lyricists of the past two decades!" Graham also cites Arcade Fire 's debut album Funeral as a key influence. In a 2015 feature with Clash magazine, he said, "It was around the time that Andy [MacFarlane] had been saying to me that he wanted me to write some songs with him, and it was also around the time that I finally knew what I wanted to write about. Without this record I don't know if I'd have approached our debut album in

1155-544: The COVID-19 pandemic . Instead, on what would have been the day of the first show, the band released a live album, It Won/t Be Like This All the Time Live , for download via Bandcamp on a pay-what-you-like basis, and on 17 April, the night of the second Glasgow show, fans were invited to take part in a listening party on Twitter , hosted by Tim Burgess . Graham said: "... we were supposed to be playing our second night at

1232-638: The Hollywood Bowl in Los Angeles and three nights at Madison Square Garden in New York , and continued to support The Cure on their October–December 2016 European tour, which included three nights at London 's Wembley Arena as well as dates in Berlin , Rome , Madrid , Barcelona , and Paris . On 22 January 2018, the band announced via social media that drummer Mark Devine had amicably left

1309-979: The Royal Scottish National Orchestra , recorded live at Paisley Abbey in October 2013. The Twilight Sad performed their debut album Fourteen Autumns & Fifteen Winters in its entirety for the first time in December 2013, with further UK dates performing the full album in April and May 2014. The tour dates coincided with the release of a deluxe edition reissue of the debut album, with bonus tracks including demos and rarities, released on Record Store Day 2014. The band began working on tracks for their fourth album in late 2012, with recording sessions at Mogwai 's Castle of Doom Studios in Glasgow beginning in January 2014. On 12 August 2014,

1386-570: The 10th anniversary of Radiohead's OK Computer album. Inspired by a stripped down performance at London's Union Chapel , the band reworked some of the songs on Fourteen Autumns & Fifteen Winters for a new mini-album entitled Here, It Never Snowed. Afterwards It Did , released in June 2008. During this time, the band supported acts such as Mogwai , The Smashing Pumpkins , Snow Patrol , David Pajo , Battles , Beirut , Frightened Rabbit , and Idlewild . During their winter tour with Mogwai,

1463-512: The 1950s and 1960s, with "skinny ties, white belts [and] shag haircuts". There was an emphasis on "rock authenticity" that was seen as a reaction to the commercialism of MTV-oriented nu metal , hip hop and "bland" post-Britpop groups. Because the bands came from countries around the world, cited diverse influences and adopted differing styles of dress, their unity as a genre has been disputed. For garage rock historian Eric James Abbey, these were diverse bands that appropriated (or were given)

1540-660: The EP a 7.8 out of 10 rating, praising the band's "stadium anthem" technique through "lip-quivering emotion punctuated with explosions." Treble zine reviewer Herbert Vigilla stated that the EP shows the band "have a knack for crafting cathartic, visceral shoegazer anthems." Delusions of Adequacy also praised the band's "structural 'formula'" for the songs as "effective and breath-taking", and James Graham's "stark reminisces and recriminations ... expressively wrapped in his pronounced Scottish accent" and lyrics "rife with vague to pointed accusations, which are parsed out piecemeal, giving room for

1617-519: The EPs My Dress Up and Spiders following in 2010. Current members Former members Post-punk revival Post-punk revival (also known as indie rock revival ) is a genre or movement of indie rock that emerged in the early 2000s as musicians started to play a stripped down and back-to-basics version of guitar rock inspired by the original sounds and aesthetics of post-punk , new wave and garage rock . It

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1694-626: The Futureheads , The Cribs , the Libertines , Kaiser Chiefs and the Kooks in the UK. Arctic Monkeys were the most prominent act to owe their initial commercial success to the use of Internet social networking , with two No. 1 singles and Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I'm Not (2006), which became the fastest-selling debut album in British chart history. In the years following Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I'm Not there

1771-496: The Grahams are proud, attendant fans at many of their gigs." Graham elaborated that, "My mum and dad are actually the biggest supporters of our band. The songs aren’t about me having a really bad childhood; it’s about, from the outside, looking in at other people in my community. And the shite that happened to my family – not in my family. It's about other dickheads influencing our lives, whether or not they realise. Writing these songs

1848-503: The Invisible Boy ", "Last Year's Rain Didn't Fall Quite So Hard", and " And She Would Darken the Memory " also appear on the band's debut album, Fourteen Autumns & Fifteen Winters , which followed the EP in April 2007. The EP garnered warm critical reception, with independent music website Delusions of Adequacy praising "the cathartic racket" of the songs as "uplifting and expansive, on

1925-597: The UK, and was led by a small group of bands. The Strokes emerged from the New York club scene with their debut album, Is This It (2001), which debuted at No. 2 in the UK and cracked the Top 40 in America. The White Stripes, from Detroit, released their third album, White Blood Cells (2001), which charted decently in both the US and the UK, as well as spawning two transatlantic Top 25 singles. The Hives, from Sweden, became

2002-595: The United Kingdom in December 2014 and January 2015, including a date performing at Edinburgh 's Hogmanay Celebration on New Year's Eve, then returned to the United States in February/March 2015. Further tour dates across Europe and festival appearances followed throughout summer 2015, culminating with UK and European tour dates as the supporting act for Editors in October and November 2015, and

2079-457: The United States and the United Kingdom, as well as European festivals during the summer and a headlining gig at Barrowland Ballroom in December, the band released a collection of remixes entitled No One Can Ever Know: The Remixes in November 2012. In December 2013, The Twilight Sad and The Skinny released a free digital download single and video of the band performing "The Wrong Car" with

2156-806: The White Stripes and the Von Bondies . New York's scene included the Strokes , Interpol , Yeah Yeah Yeahs , Le Tigre , TV on the Radio , LCD Soundsystem , the Walkmen , the Rapture , and Liars . In Los Angeles & San Francisco, the scene was centered around Black Rebel Motorcycle Club , Brian Jonestown Massacre , the Dandy Warhols and Silversun Pickups . Other countries had their own local bands incorporating post-punk music. The commercial breakthrough from these scenes began initially in

2233-514: The acts are associated with producer Dan Carey and his record label Speedy Wunderground, and with The Windmill , an all-ages music venue in Brixton, London . Artists that have been identified as part of the style include Black Midi , Squid , Black Country, New Road , Dry Cleaning , Shame , Sleaford Mods , Fontaines D.C. , The Murder Capital , Idles and Yard Act . The Twilight Sad (EP) " That Summer, at Home I Had Become

2310-507: The album also produced the mid-2010 release The Wrong Car , which followed the departure of founding bassist Craig Orzel in February 2010. The Twilight Sad's third album, No One Can Ever Know , was released in February 2012 and marked another stylistic shift, with the band citing industrial music and krautrock influences for a darker, sparser sound. The band's fourth album, entitled Nobody Wants to Be Here and Nobody Wants to Leave ,

2387-458: The album's sound as "sparser... with a colder, slightly militant feel," and the band received some production assistance from producer Andrew Weatherall , who helped in their experimenting with analog synthesizers . The band released a new song, the album's closing track "Kill It in the Morning", for free on their new website and SoundCloud page on 21 September 2011. The first proper single from

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2464-426: The album, "Sick", was made available as a 7" vinyl single and digital download on 14 November 2011. Second single "Another Bed" followed the album's release on 20 February 2012. In August 2012, the band announced that touring keyboardist Martin "Dok" Doherty would no longer be performing with the band, stating "[An] end of an era as our next two gigs will be Dok's last with the band. One of our best friends and one of

2541-570: The album, "VTr", was made available for download and streaming on 13 November 2018. The album was released to critical acclaim, including perfect scores from Drowned in Sound and The Skinny . In November 2019 the band played a short UK tour of larger venues, at London's Kentish Town Forum , Manchester's O2 Ritz and Edinburgh's Usher Hall , the shows being professionally recorded. In 2020, two shows were planned in quadrophonic sound at Glasgow's Barrowland Ballroom , but those were postponed due to

2618-463: The band aimed to capture all the different forms their music has taken over the years, from "full on noise/feedback, to a sparse, synth led sound, to a stripped back set up with just keys, drum machine and guitar, to playing with an orchestra, and to just an acoustic with vocal." The album produced three singles; the first single, "Last January", was released as a digital download on 15 September 2014; second single "I Could Give You All That You Don't Want"

2695-416: The band also toured with Micah P. Hinson and participated in 2007's South by Southwest music festival before their debut album was released. Their debut studio album, Fourteen Autumns & Fifteen Winters , was released in April 2007, featuring production from guitarist Andy MacFarlane and mixed by Peter Katis . The album was recorded over a short period of just three days, and the songs featured were

2772-633: The band announced via their official website, Facebook , and Instagram pages that the new album, entitled Nobody Wants to Be Here and Nobody Wants to Leave , would be released on 27 October 2014. The announcement was accompanied by a 1-minute teaser video trailer on the band's website, followed by a posting of the album's opening track "There's a Girl in the Corner" on Vice magazine's Noisey blog on 18 August 2014. In an interview with Contactmusic.com , guitarist/producer Andy MacFarlane explained that with Nobody Wants to Be Here and Nobody Wants to Leave ,

2849-561: The band as "perennially unhappy" and "a band that inject some real emotion and dynamic excitement into a comparatively standard template." The foundation for the group started in Kilsyth and the neighbouring village of Banton , when vocalist James Graham met guitarist Andy MacFarlane in high school and went on to form a cover band with some friends, which included drummer Mark Devine. After leaving school, they decided to take it more seriously. In late 2003, MacFarlane met bassist Craig Orzel in

2926-478: The band did not also make an official statement about the changing of members. In October, the band embarked on a two-month European tour, once more as The Cure's support act, followed by a similar tour of North America in mid-2023. When asked to describe their debut album, Graham said the band likes to see their songs as " folk with layers of noise", as they are based on experiences that have happened to them, around their hometowns or people they know. They often cite

3003-575: The band released Killed My Parents and Hit the Road , a compilation of live recordings, covers, acoustic demos, and unreleased material. The band released their second studio album, Forget the Night Ahead , in September 2009. Musically, they described the album as "noisier and bigger", where they experimented with a lot of instruments and different sounds, including fire extinguishers. The album

3080-448: The band toured for the album across Europe and the United States throughout 2007 and 2008. Sessions inspired by stripped-down and reworked live performances yielded the 2008 mini-album, Here, It Never Snowed. Afterwards It Did . The band's second album, Forget the Night Ahead , marked a shift in their direction; lyrically more personal and musically darker and more streamlined, it was released in 2009 to acclaim. Recording sessions for

3157-493: The band's fifth studio album is "finished", with a tentative release date of January 2019. MacFarlane said, "It all came together really well. To me, it's like a different band almost. I did a stupid thing of writing loads of music, then giving it to James to write stuff over, then I deleted all the music. So then I wrote another album under it... I think we just needed to shake up the routine. One of our mates bought us those Brian Eno Oblique Strategy cards . I picked one out and it

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3234-446: The band's recorded sound is layered with many melodies, their live sound is a more intense experience with a more visceral wall of noise, something the band wanted to do all along. Graham stated, "We like having the contrast between the record and playing live. There are a lot more instruments on the record. There's only four of us in the band, so we have to keep it as simple as possible. I don't know about you, but I don't like going to see

3311-681: The band. The band's new touring drummer, Sebastien Schultz, joined shortly thereafter. In June 2018, the band played their first shows for 18 months at the Primavera Sound festival. Following this, on 16 June they played their first UK headlining show since 2015 at the Brudenell Social Club in Leeds, and appeared at The Cure's Hyde Park show on 7 July. During these shows they premiered three new songs - "The Arbor", "VTr" and "Shooting Dennis Hopper Shooting" - as well as playing

3388-473: The decade with the success of Bloc Party , Arctic Monkeys and the Killers . Over time, later indie and post-punk bands were criticized with the term "landfill indie". The term post-punk was coined to describe groups who took punk and experimented with more challenging musical structures and lyrical themes, and a self-consciously art-based image, while retaining punk's initial iconoclastic stance. In

3465-629: The early 2000s, a new group of bands that played a stripped down and back-to-basics version of guitar rock emerged into the mainstream. They were variously characterized as part of a garage rock , new wave or post-punk revival. Inspired by the original sounds and aesthetics of garage rock of the 1960s and new wave and post-punk of the late 1970s and early 1980s, with other influences that ranged from traditional blues , through new wave to grunge . They shared an emphasis on energetic live performance and used aesthetics (in hair and clothes) closely aligned with their fans, often drawing on fashion of

3542-548: The end of the decade, many of the bands of the movement had broken up, were on hiatus, or had moved into other musical areas, and very few were making significant impact on the charts. Bands that returned to recording and touring in the 2010s included Franz Ferdinand, Arctic Monkeys, the Strokes and Interpol. Post punk artists that attained prominence in the 2010s and early 2020s included Parquet Courts , Protomartyr and Geese (United States), Preoccupations (Canada), Iceage (Denmark), and Viagra Boys (Sweden). In

3619-520: The famous Glasgow Barrowland Ballroom ... Let's pretend we're all at the gig together. All five of us will be taking part and sharing memories from past gigs, sharing thoughts on playing live and many other things". The Barrowland gigs finally took place in April 2022, with Mogwai 's Alex Mackay stepping in for MacFarlane and Grant Hutchison for Schultz. Hutchison played with the band at further gigs in 2022, and in September announced on his Instagram account that he has fully joined The Twilight Sad, though

3696-653: The first ones the band had ever written. It received good critical reception from independent media; the album was lauded as 2007's "Album of the Year" in Planet Sound and The Skinny in Scotland. In July 2007, the band contributed a cover of Radiohead 's "Climbing Up the Walls" to the download-only compilation Stereogum Presents... OKX: A Tribute to OK Computer , a track-for-track collection of covers commemorating

3773-399: The label "garage" to gain a degree of credibility. AllMusic argued that rather than a revival, the history of post-punk was more of a continuum from the mid-1980s, with scattered bands that included Big Flame , World Domination Enterprises , and Minimal Compact extending the genre. In the mid-1990s, notable bands in this vein included Six Finger Satellite , Brainiac and Elastica . At

3850-417: The label, went to Glasgow to watch the band perform their third gig and signed them on the spot. The demo recordings were later issued commercially on a split cassette tape release with Frightened Rabbit for Record Store Day in 2011. The band credit Planet Sound for giving them their first review, when a demo of their song "That Summer, at Home I Had Become the Invisible Boy" received a 9/10 rating from

3927-504: The landfill indie movement as dead, blaming Scouting For Girls , the Wombats and Joe Lean by stating "If landfill indie had been a game of Buckaroo , those three sent the whole donkey's arse of radio-friendly mainstream guitar band monotony flying high into the air, legs flailing." A 2020 Vice article cited Johnny Borrell , vocalist of Razorlight , as the "one man who defined, embodied and lived Landfill Indie" due his forming of

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4004-592: The line up changes is that we all remain friends with each other and when someone has left it's been for a good reason and the right choice for them. We've lucked out with Johnny [Docherty] and Brendan who are maniacs in the best possible way, but they are also brilliant musicians as were Dok and Craig [Orzel] and they all put the likes of me to shame." Doherty left the band to further pursue his electropop project Chvrches with former Aereogramme guitarist Iain Cook and singer Lauren Mayberry . Along with nationwide tours of

4081-679: The live album Quietly Now! by fellow Scottish band Frightened Rabbit , providing additional vocals on the track "Keep Yourself Warm". In 2011, Graham appeared as a guest vocalist and songwriter on the album First Edition by The Fruit Tree Foundation , a supergroup collaboration of Scottish musicians headed by Rod Jones and Emma Pollock for the benefit of the Mental Health Foundation for Scotland . In 2015, Graham participated in Aidan Moffat 's backing band during Moffat's UK tour performing Scottish folk songs. The tour

4158-431: The magazine in 2005. James Graham remarked, "That was the first review we ever had... we were thrilled. It gave us a lot of confidence we were on the right path." The band's first commercial release, their self-titled EP , was mixed by label mate Max Richter and released in November 2006 in the United States only. They then proceeded to play the fourth gig of their career at New York's CMJ Music Marathon . During this time

4235-411: The media as the "The" bands, and dubbed "the saviours of rock 'n' roll", prompting Rolling Stone magazine to declare on its September 2002 cover, "Rock is Back!" This press attention, in turn, led to accusations of hype, and some dismissed the scene as unoriginal, image-conscious and tuneless. According to Reynolds, "apart from maybe the White Stripes, none could really be described as retro". In

4312-446: The mid-to-late 2010s and early 2020s, a new wave of post-punk bands from Britain and Ireland emerged. The groups in this scene have been described with the term "Crank Wave" by NME and The Quietus in 2019, and as "Post- Brexit New Wave" by NPR writer Matthew Perpetua in 2021. Perpetua describes the groups in the scene as "U.K. bands that kinda talk-sing over post-punk music, and sometimes it's more like post-rock ." Many of

4389-440: The most talented people we know! [...] Been a pleasure and a privilege to share the stage, be on the road [and] have many a drunken night in foreign lands over the past five years with you, Dok." Later that month, Doherty's replacement was revealed to be Brendan Smith, previously of the bands Julia Thirteen and The Unwinding Hours . Regarding the band's line-up changes over the past six years, James Graham noted, "The good thing about

4466-470: The music I write." Graham also mentions his liking for bands such as Joy Division . By the time of their third album, the band began exploring post-punk and krautrock facets of their influences, with MacFarlane citing artists such as PiL , Siouxsie and the Banshees , Can , Cabaret Voltaire and Wire as key inspirations. In an October 2009 interview with The Fly , they admitted, "We are still at

4543-462: The record. It's got really noisy guitars but it's pretty melodic. I think it's the next stage of who we're meant to be. ...I won't say exactly what it's dealing with [lyrically] because a lot of it might be quite obvious, but I'm not hiding behind a lot of metaphors anymore. I've done that, what's the point in trying to do it again? I'm really proud of our lyrics in the past but this is just what came out. I don't need to hide behind anything any more. It's

4620-417: The same record over and over don't have a very long career." The band returned to the studio in January 2011. In April 2011, the band released a free acoustic EP on their official blog. The release featured stripped-back renditions of tracks from both Forget the Night Ahead and The Wrong Car . The Twilight Sad's third album, No One Can Ever Know , was released on 6 February 2012. Andy MacFarlane describes

4697-482: The sessions for Forget the Night Ahead , as well as two remixes by Simon Ward of Errors and Stuart Braithwaite of Mogwai . Whilst on tour with Errors in October 2010, vocalist James Graham stated that "the next [album] is not going to be anything like the first two. [...] The wall of sound is kinda gone. Andy [MacFarlane]'s demos involve a lot of keyboards, and it's a lot more considered." Additional musician Martin "Dok" Doherty also stated that "the band who make

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4774-442: The stage where we don't really know where we are in this whole music industry thing. We know people like us, but we don't really know where we fit in or, if we go to certain places, up or not. [...] It's not like we're a stadium band. We're not a lads band, like Oasis or something. We're not a scenestery band, and yet we're not a pure experimental band either. Obviously we're noisy and stuff, but we write proper songs as well." Where

4851-537: The turn of the century, the term "post-punk" began to appear in the music press again, with a number of critics reviving the label to describe a new set of bands that shared some of the aesthetics of the original post-punk era. Music critic Simon Reynolds noted that bands like the Rapture and Franz Ferdinand were influenced by the more angular strain of post-punk, particularly bands such as Wire and Gang of Four . Others identified this movement as another wave of garage rock revivalism, with NME in 2003 designating it

4928-443: The verge of overwhelming with sound, sweeping the listener away from the harsh, earth-bound lyrics and delivery" and hailing the EP as "a bracing distillation of what The Twilight Sad does best, marrying spare to expansive sonics with bitter, sharp, sometimes enigmatic lyrics and a powerful, emotional sing-talking delivery by James Graham, as skeletons are rattled in the old family closet." Pitchfork Media reviewer Marc Hogan awarded

5005-698: The wake of this attention, existing acts like Yeah Yeah Yeahs were able to sign to major record labels. A second wave of bands that managed to gain international recognition as a result of the movement included Interpol , the Black Keys , the Killers , Kings of Leon , Modest Mouse , the Shins , the Bravery , Spoon , the Hold Steady , and the National in the US, and Franz Ferdinand , Bloc Party ,

5082-430: The way that I did. Funeral had a massive influence on my songwriting style and the way in which I approach writing songs. The way in which the storytelling within the song develops as the track progresses, the power of repeating the same line within a song and the different ways to deliver the line to give it different meanings... Funeral is an album that will stay with me for the rest of my life and will always influence

5159-460: The works of Daniel Johnston , Serge Gainsbourg , Phil Spector , Arab Strap , and Leonard Cohen as influences. Graham lists the 2003 Arab Strap album Monday at the Hug & Pint amongst his favourite releases of the 2000s, stating that it was "the first Arab Strap album that I ever listened to... For me it was the first record that I realized it was OK to sing in your own accent . Aidan [Moffat]

5236-643: Was a proliferation of bands, such as the Pigeon Detectives , Milburn , The Fratellis and the Rifles , who created a more formulaic derivative of the earlier acts. By the end of the decade, critics had taken to referring to this wave of acts as "landfill indie", a description coined by Andrew Harrison of the Word magazine. In a 2009 article for the Guardian , journalist Peter Robinson cited

5313-424: Was allowing me to put off." Orzel continues to record music under his solo moniker, Orzelda. Following Orzel's departure, the band added Johnny Docherty, of Take a Worm for a Walk Week, to the band's live line-up. The band's first release since Orzel's departure, an EP entitled The Wrong Car , was released in late September 2010. The EP features two previously unreleased songs which were written and recorded during

5390-498: Was later included on the Killed My Parents and Hit the Road compilation. MacFarlane also provided a remix of Errors ' song "Bridge or Cloud?" in January 2010, which was posted as a free download on NME ' s website. In February 2011, MacFarlane provided a remix of Fat Cat labelmate Ensemble 's track "Before Night", which was posted as a "song of the day" on The Line of Best Fit's website. Singer James Graham appears on

5467-444: Was like 'delete everything, must try harder, don't tell James'. The aim was to try and do stuff that we'd enjoy playing live, to make it more interesting for ourselves as well as everyone else." In the same interview, James Graham discussed the album's lyrics and themes, describing them as "heavier": "It's all pretty full on but there's some lighter shades and some hope on there. The first song that we're going to come back with epitomises

5544-432: Was part of the documentary film Where You're Meant to Be , which was released the following year. In 2016, Graham featured as a guest vocalist with supergroup Minor Victories on their song "Scattered Ashes (Song for Richard)". The track appeared on Minor Victories' self-titled album . In 2017, Graham co-founded the band Out Lines, with fellow musicians Kathryn Joseph and Marcus Mackay. Out Lines's debut album, Conflats ,

5621-532: Was released as a double A-side 7" vinyl single with the exclusive track "The Airport" on 9 February 2015; and third single "It Never Was the Same" was released on 29 June 2015 as a 7" vinyl single, featuring the exclusive version of "There's a Girl in the Corner" as covered by Robert Smith of The Cure . Additionally, a limited edition 6-song EP entitled Òran Mór Session , featuring stripped-down versions of songs from Nobody Wants to Be Here and Nobody Wants to Leave ,

5698-406: Was released in late October 2014 to universally positive reviews, and was the band's last album with founding member Mark Devine, who left amicably in January 2018. The Twilight Sad's fifth studio album, It Won/t Be Like This All the Time , was released in January 2019 to further critical acclaim. The band has described their sound as " folk with layers of noise", and music critics have described

5775-413: Was released on 27 October 2017 via Rock Action Records , Mogwai's label, where Graham had also worked outside his Twilight Sad duties. In 2022, Graham and Moffat released These Actions Cannot Be Undone , a collaborative album under the name Gentle Sinners, on Rock Action Records. Under the name Orzelda, former bassist Craig Orzel released a solo album, The Wee Shop Is Filled with Delights , in 2008, with

5852-454: Was released to further critical acclaim, and was supported by multiple tours of Europe and the United States. On 8 February 2010, it was announced that founding bassist Craig Orzel had left the band. With a statement on the band's official blog, Orzel cited personal reasons for the departure and later stated that "there were some changes I wanted to make to my life that I felt being in The Sad

5929-535: Was self-released by the band in October 2014, then expanded to 9 songs and given a wider release by Fat Cat Records in October 2015. The band embarked on a North American tour supporting We Were Promised Jetpacks in October and November 2014, with two dates performing Fourteen Autumns & Fifteen Winters in its entirety at Rough Trade in New York City and The Empty Bottle in Chicago . The band toured

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