The Twilight Sad

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The Twilight Sad
James Graham and former bass player Craig Orzel on Avalanche Records, June 2008.
James Graham and former bass player Craig Orzel on Avalanche Records, June 2008.
General information
Genre (s) Shoegaze , post-rock , indie-rock
founding 2003
Website www.thetwilightsad.com
Current occupation
James Alexander Graham (since 2003)
Andy MacFarlane (since 2003)
Johnny Docherty (since 2010)
Brendan Smith (since 2012)
Sebastian Schultz (since 2019)
former members
Craig Orzel (2003-2010)
Mark Devine (2003-2018)
Martin Doherty (2008-2012)
Johnny Scott (2018/19)

The Twilight Sad are a Scottish shoegaze - or post-rock - band from Kilsyth near Glasgow . Her ancestral independent label is Rock Action Records .

Band history

Singer James Graham and guitarist Andy MacFarlane knew each other from school and had already played together there. After high school, they decided to take a serious look at music and formed The Twilight Sad with drummer Mark Devine, who they'd played with before, and bassist Craig Orzel in late 2003 . First they appeared as a live band in Glasgow. They developed their own style with long, richly orchestrated pieces of music. They recorded four of them for a demo EP and were presented to the FatCat Records label in September 2005 . They got a record deal and a year later released their debut EP exclusively in the USA, where they also went on tour. Her debut album Fourteen Autumns & Fifteen Winters was released in April 2007 and received very good record reviews.

The following year the EP Here, It Never Snowed was released. Afterwards It Did with acoustic versions of album songs and the album Killed My Parents and Hit the Road with previously unreleased recordings and cover songs by the Smiths and Joy Division . They also went on tour. Live the band was expanded to include keyboardist Martin Doherty. Among other things, they performed with the band Mogwai, also from Glasgow, in the USA. Then they devoted themselves to their second studio album Forget the Night Ahead , which was released on September 22, 2009. It was an evolution of their style of post-rock and Scottish folk that was even more evident in the work.

From 2010 there was a change in personnel: Orzel left the band and continued as a solo musician. For him, Johnny Docherty came as a replacement bass player. Doherty's keyboard and the engagement of Andrew Weatherall as producer influenced the sound of the next album, which was more electronic, but also rockier and edgier. In addition to MacFarlane, Graham also participated this time equally in the songwriting. No One Can Ever Know was released in 2012 and brought the band to the US Heatseekers charts for the first time .

However, Martin Doherty started a second band with the Chvrches and when success became apparent there, he left The Twilight Sad again. With Brandon Smith in his place, the fourth album Nobody Wants to Be Here and Nobody Wants to Leave was created . Before that, in 2013 and 2014 they performed the songs from their first album Fourteen Autumns & Fifteen Winters live several times . The album, released in October, was a return to the previous career and combined elements from the beginnings to the electronic style of the previous album. With this release they made it into the British charts for the first time . The Òran Mór Session EP with eight new album tracks recorded in a former church building and a cover song was completed in the same year.

After that it got a little quieter for the band. In 2016, the band appeared in the opening act of The Cure's world tour , including at Madison Square Garden in New York , the Hollywood Bowl in Los Angeles and London's Wembley Stadium . At the same time, James Graham started a second band project called Out Lines , which released an album in 2017. Finally, a year later, Mark Devine, the second founding member, left The Twilight Sad . With Graham, MacFarlane, the bass player Docherty, the drummer Johnny Scott and the keyboardist Brendan Smith, a new permanent line-up was found, with which a label change to Mogwais Rock Action took place and four years after the last studio album the fifth album It Won't Be Like This All the Time was recorded. They also had the support of Robert Smith from The Cure, who had been a fan of the band for several years. It became their most successful album to date, not only reaching the Top 20 in Great Britain, but also making it into the German album charts . In the United States, it brought them to the independent charts . After the recordings, Sebastian Schultz became the band's drummer instead of Scott.

Discography

Chart positions
Explanation of the data
Albums
Nobody Wants to Be Here and Nobody Wants to Leave
  UK 51 11/08/2014 (1 week)
It Won't Be Like This All the Time
  DE 99 01/25/2019 (1 week)
  UK 17th January 31, 2019 (1 week)

Albums

  • Fourteen Autumns & Fifteen Winters ( FatCat Records , 2007)
  • Forget the Night Ahead (FatCat Records, September 21-22, 2009)
  • No One Can Ever Know (FatCat Records, Feb. 6, 2012)
  • Nobody Wants to Be Here and Nobody Wants to Leave (FatCat Records, Oct. 27, 2014)
  • It Won't Be Like This All the Time (Rock Action Records, Jan 18, 2019)

EPs

  • The Twilight Sad (EP) (released in US only, 2006)
  • Here, It Never Snowed. Afterwards It Did (EP) (2008)
  • Killed My Parents and Hit the Road (limited to 1000 copies) (2008)
  • The Wrong Car (EP) (2010)
  • N / O / C / E / K Tour (EP) (2012)
  • Òran Mór Session (2014)

Singles

  • That Summer, at Home I Had Become the Invisible Boy (on 7 "vinyl and as download, 2007)
  • And She Would Darken the Memory (on 7 "vinyl and as download, 2007)
  • I Became a Prostitute (on 7 "vinyl and as download, 2009)
  • Seven Years of Letters (on 7 "vinyl and as download, 2009)
  • The Room (2010)
  • Sick (2011)
  • Another Bed (2011)
  • Last January (2014)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ We are writing to announce that Mark has amicably left The Twilight Sad. (Facebook post) January 22, 2018
  2. ↑ Record Reviews: The Twilight Sad - Fourteen Autumns and Fifteen Winters ( Memento of April 14, 2007 in the Internet Archive )
  3. ↑ The Cure: The Masters of Melancholy. In: sueddeutsche.de. October 20, 2016, accessed August 13, 2018 .
  4. ↑ Chart sources: DE UK US