Released: 18/02/22
Repress of the Scottish band's magnificent 2007 debut album. The LP's perfectly-formed nine tracks are driven by bleached, overdriven guitars that consistently ride a line between ambient and coruscating, working in tandem with an articulate – and at times tumultuous – rhythm section, forever poised between tension and release. Augmented by piano, and more frequently accordion, which provides the songs with a dramatic swoon, The Twilight Sad purvey an awestruck, ragged sentimentality. Lyrically suggestive and metaphorical, their songs give glimpses of bitter experience and romantic failure, at times verging on the anthemic or celebratory.