Long-time 17 Seconds faves The Twilight Sad have announced the release of a new album Òran Mór Session, which as the name might suggest, documents a stripped back performance at Glasgow’s Òran Mór. It’s released on long-term lab

el Fat Cat on October 16.

This is a gorgeous version of ‘It Never Was The Same.’

The album tracklisting is as follows:

1. Nobody Wants To Be Here And Nobody Wants To Leave
2. Last January
3. It Never Was The Same
4. Pills I Swallow
5. I Could Give You All That You Don’t Want
6. Drown So I Can Watch
7. The Airport
8. Leave The House
9. I Couldn’t Say It To Your Face

Twilight Sad -‘Nobody Wants To Be Here And Nobody Wants To Leave.’ (Fat Cat)

Why oh why have the Twilight Sad still not yet broken through to the mainstream success that they so clearly deserve? You wonder if it galls them that former labelmates and tourmates Frightened Rabbit have signed to a major and have enjoyed a top ten album this year or that former bandmate Martin Docherty is now one-third of the hugely popular Chvrches.

Let us be clear about two things: this is not due in any way to their music or, indeed, reviews. There are many people out there who love the Twilight Sad just the way they are – and I am one of them.

The album opens with the impressive double-whammy of ‘There’s A Girl In The Corner’ and ‘Last January’; the two tracks that have been doing the rounds ahead of the album’s release for a few weeks now. And then, as the anthemic, bass-driven ‘I Could Give You All that You Don’t Want’ kicks in, it all becomes clear: this is an album that doesn’t let up,

and holds it’s own to the final notes of the heartbreaking album closer ‘Sometimes I Wished I Could Fall Asleep.’

The band have talked of this album combining elements of their three previous studio albums, and I would agree. It may well be the most Twilight Sad any of their records have

sounded without ever feeling that it’s going over old ground. Hopefully this will be the record that catapults them into the big time. And if it isn’t, that’s the fault of the listening public and not the band.

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Nobody Wants To Be Here And Nobody Wants To Leave is released by Fat Cat on October 27.

Perennial 17 Seconds favourites The Twilight Sad are due to return with their fourth album nex

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Entitled Nobody Wants To Be Here And Nobody Wants To Leave, the first two tracks to do the rounds suggest this is classic Twilight Sad. And as a longtime

supporter of

the band, I’m hopeful that this will be the one that takes them to the success now enjoy

ed by the likes

of former labelmates Frightened Rabbit.

The album is released on October 27 on FatCat. The tracklisting for the albu

m is as follows:

1. There’s A Girl In The Corner (stream at the top of the page)
2. Last January (stream at the bottom of the page)
3. I Could Give You All That You Don’t Want
4. It Never Was The Same
5. Drown So I Can Watch
6. In Nowheres
7. Nobody Wants To B

e Here And Nobody Wants To Leave
8. Pills I Swallow
9. Leave The House
10. Sometimes I Wished I Could Fall Asleep

Twilight Sad -‘No One Can Ever Know.’ (Fat Cat)

The first person who tipped me off about the Twilight Sad was none other than Emma Pollock, when I interviewed her several years ago for this blog. At the time the band were receiving rave notices for their debut album Fourteen Autumns and Fifteen Winters. A few months later I caught them on a

bill that also featured Broken Records and was headlined by Idlewild and it was clear that here were an excllent band,

drenched in feedback and very powerful indeed.

I’m pleased but not surprised to report -having caught them again in November – that the Twilight Sad have come of age on this, their third album. They still sound like

The Twilight Sad – but they have also grown in confidence and power. Now it’s not just about the scottish aesthetic that made them welcome bedfellows with the likes of Mogwai and Frightened Rabbit; it’s also about the post-punk influences that have fed through onto this record.

This is not to say that this sounds like yet another indie band regurgitating Entertainment! once more; rather that the likes of Magazine, the Banshees and The Cure circa Pornography have fed through. Additionally, the greated use of electronics recall Depeche Mode circa Violator and Songs Of Faith And Devotion and the work of Autechre.

The first track to be circulated ‘Kill It In The Morning’ and single ‘Sick’ let us know something big was coming. Listening to this album as one incredible whole is a staggeringly intense but utterly rewarding and wonderful experience. If this does not take them into mainstream success then the joke is on the listening public.

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No One Can Ever Know is released on Fat Cat on February 6.

I’ve long supported Twilight Sad on this blog, and am hoping that 2012 will be the year that the band really break through after the hard work of the last few years.

They are about to go out on tour in England and Scotland, as seen below:

Nov 13th, Dundee, Doghouse
Nov 14th, A

berdeen, Tunnels
Nov 15th, Inverness, Ironworks
Nov 16th, Edinburgh, Bongo Club
Nov 19th, Preston, Mad Ferret
Nov 20th, York, Duchess
Nov 21stst, London, Borderline
Nov 22nd, Oxford, Jericho
Nov 23rd, Leicester, Firebug
Nov 24th, Hull, Adelphi
Nov 25th, Stirling, Tolboot

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This is a new(ish) track doing the rounds:

The Twilight Sad – Ki

ll It In The Morning by Fat Cat Records

…and you can hear their new single ‘Sick’ (artwork

above) by following this

link.

Now the competition – I have been given a pair of tickets for the Edinburgh show on November 16. To be in with a chance of winning, simply email seventeensecondsblog@hotmail.co.uk and tell me what the name of the new Twilight Sad album, due out in February 2012 is called. Email by 0:01 on November 15.

…and the winner is…SCOTT! Well done, have a gre

at gig 🙂