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Cold Days From The Birdhouse
Artist: The Twilight Sad
Album: Fourteen Autumns, Fifteen Winters
Label: Fat Cat Records / IODA
Genre: Alternative/Punk
Styles: Indie Rock, Alternative
Album Review
Debut album from Scots mapped by what surrounds them.
Along with the similarly reach-for-the-sky-oriented Aerogramme, the Twilight Sad make rock music that's as emotionally cloying as your garden-variety emo band. Lucky for us, then, that singer James Graham cloaks his lyrics in distance (the 14-year-old boy in "That Summer, at Home I Had Become the Invisible Boy") and repetition ("Last Year's Rain Didn't Fall Quite So Hard"). It also doesn't hurt that the group that backs him rarely lets him get a word in without shrouding him in a blast of guitar lacquer.
Said sonics are usually of the wall-of-sound variety with liberal doses of reverb poured into song structures wide-open enough to accommodate them. The fact that these tunes might be flimsy structurally shouldn't put you off, though: it just allows the group more time to build to astonishing crescendos and hypnotize you with Craig Orzel's ingeniously simple basslines. Much credit should go to co-producer Peter Katis (Interpol, the National), but these Scots seemingly crafted many of the sounds that appear on Fourteen Autumns, Fifteen Winters simply by listening to their My Bloody Valentine records and trying their best to figure out how it was done. Further trials are encouraged.
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