Scottish post punk trio
The Twilight Sad have announced the release of their fifth full-length album '
It Won/T Be Like This All the Time'.
The 11-track album will be out 18 January 2019 on Rock Action Records. Pre-order your copy
here.
For this record, they officially brought long-time touring members Brendan Smith (The Blue Nile, The Unwinding Hours) and Johnny Docherty (Take a Worm For a Walk Week, RUNGS) in from the wings to help push The Twilight Sad to the next plateau.’
“I’ve always seen Brendan and Johnny as part of the band and it’s time to say that aloud,” frontman James Alexander Graham affirms.“From the actual coming together of the demos to recording the final versions of these songs has probably been one of my favourite experiences of being in the band. All four of us were throwing ideas in, whereas before Andy had mapped it all out. Once he got past the point of making the demos his point of view was ‘we need to make these even better. These need to take a step up from where they are.’ He opened the floor to everybody.”
“It’s a dark record but I think there are some uplifting moments to be had too,” Graham offers. “There are so many extremes here – there are moments that are harsh, then others that are quite melodic and others that are stripped right down. This album definitely comes with the extremes of every side of the band, I think. There’s a certain direct openness and candour now but at the same time, I want to keep some mystery. We don’t like to throw things in people’s faces and spell it out for them.”
The band have also shared their new single "
Videograms", Graham says: "'Videograms' was the first song written for the album but the last song finished before we went in to record. It’s one of the most melodic things we’ve done. Since writing the song I’ve heard the phrase "don’t you start on me” whilst walking down the street, in the supermarket, in the pub. It must have been something that I’d heard a lot that stuck with me and came out in this song."
Check out the tracklist and listen to "
Videograms" below..
Tracklist:
01. [10 Good Reasons for Modern Drugs]
02. Shooting Dennis Hopper Shooting
03. The Arbor
04. VTr
05. Sunday Day13
06.
I/m Not Here [Missing Face]
07. Auge/Maschine
08. Keep It All to Myself
09. Girl Chewing Gum
10. Let/s Get Lost
11.Videograms
